Handbook on Drug AbuseNational Institute on Drug Abuse, U.S. Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, 1979 - 452 pages Comprehensive report on drug abuse in the USA. Contains some forty contributions, reviewing drug problem trends since the mid-seventies, with particular reference to patterns of drug use in specific groups (youth, older people, etc.), treatment and prevention modalities, social psychological and epidemics aspects, etc. |
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... individual author chose . Thus , the authors were free to express their viewpoints and interpretations of issues . In addition , many authors included recommendations for the future , including policy recommendations , and these too ...
... individual author chose . Thus , the authors were free to express their viewpoints and interpretations of issues . In addition , many authors included recommendations for the future , including policy recommendations , and these too ...
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... individual case is always serious it can by no means be considered hopeless and every effort should be made by thorough and suitable treatment to free the patient from his addiction . It must be borne in mind , however , that those ...
... individual case is always serious it can by no means be considered hopeless and every effort should be made by thorough and suitable treatment to free the patient from his addiction . It must be borne in mind , however , that those ...
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... individuals were able to maintain them- selves as outpatients by obtaining supplies from medical channels , or to seek ... individual who wanted " treatment " for his / her marihuana use could be . In many parts of the country , a ...
... individuals were able to maintain them- selves as outpatients by obtaining supplies from medical channels , or to seek ... individual who wanted " treatment " for his / her marihuana use could be . In many parts of the country , a ...
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... individuals . Given the importance of the question and the efforts made to date , it may seem curious to a casual observ ... individual and the environ- ment to which he returns have significant effects . on the outcome of the treatment ...
... individuals . Given the importance of the question and the efforts made to date , it may seem curious to a casual observ ... individual and the environ- ment to which he returns have significant effects . on the outcome of the treatment ...
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... individuals charged with drug possession , the costs to society and the individual are probably reduced when long prison sentences for simple possession are converted to probation and " treatment . " TREATMENT AS RESEARCH OPPORTUNITY ...
... individuals charged with drug possession , the costs to society and the individual are probably reduced when long prison sentences for simple possession are converted to probation and " treatment . " TREATMENT AS RESEARCH OPPORTUNITY ...
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Page 180 - Hamburg, S. Behavior therapy in alcoholism: A critical review of broadspectrum approaches. Journal of Studies on Alcohol, 1975, 36, 6987.
Page 85 - Peters, MA The effect of acute and chronic methadone treatment on the in vitro .N-demethylation of methadone by microsomal enzymes of male and pregnant and non-pregnant female rats.
Page 283 - Feighner JP. Robins E. Guze SB. et al: Diagnostic criteria for use in psychiatric research. Arch Gen Psychiatry 26:57-63. 1972 2.
Page 229 - A comparison of the capacities of isomers of amphetamine, deoxypipradol and methylphenidate to inhibit the uptake of tritiated Catecholamines into rat cerebral cortex slices, synaptosomal preparations of rat cerebral cortex, hypothalamus and striatum and into adrenergic nerves of rabbit aorta.
Page 86 - In: National Association for the Prevention of Addiction to Narcotics, Proceedings of the Fourth National Conference on Methadone Treatment.
Page 163 - Domestic Council Drug Abuse Task Force. White Paper on Drug Abuse: A Report to the President.
Page 283 - Byck, R. Peptide transmitters: a unifying hypothesis for euphoria, respiration, sleep, and the action of lithium. Lancet, 2:72-73, 1976. Davidson, V. Transference phenomena in the treatment of addictive illness: love and hate in methadone maintenance.
Page 83 - SR; Albin, S.; Lowinson, J.; et al. Differential effects of maternal heroin and methadone use on birthweight. Pediatrics, 58:681-685, 1976.
Page 241 - Nineteen illicit cocaine users took doses of 10 mg. and 25 mg. intranasally and intravenously, and 100 mg. intranasally. The 10 mg. intranasal dose had no observable subjective or physiological effect; at 25 mg. there was a rise in systolic blood pressure (no other physiological effects) and some euphoria (the most commonly reported feeling was relaxation). One hundred mg. affected mood strongly and also raised heart rate and diastolic blood pressure, but not respiratory rate or body temperature....
Page 339 - Transition project— followed up most recently in 1974 (Johnston 1973, 1975), and the annual surveys of junior and senior high school students in San Mateo County, California...