Addictions, Substance Abuse & Alcoholism

Summary: Provides a two-volume set that contains 425 alphabetically arranged essays on a variety of topics, including substances of abuse, treatment and addiction overviews, organizations and foundations dedicated to treatment and prevention, physiological and psychological issues and behaviors, trends and statistics, and social contexts and concerns related to substance abuse and treatment such as advertising and media influence, aging, ethnicity, and children and substance abuse.

Record details

ISBN: 9781682179451
ISBN: 1682179451
Physical Description: print
xviii, 360 pages : illustrations (mostly color), charts ; 27 cm.
Edition: Second edition.
Publisher: Ipswich, MA : EBSCO Information Services, Inc. ; [2018]
Copyright: copyright 2018

Content descriptions

General Note:	Salem Press.
Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references.
Formatted Contents Note:	Contents -- Publisher's Note -- Editor's Introduction -- Contributors -- Complete List of Contents -- Abstinence-based treatment -- Addiction -- Addiction medications -- Addictive personality -- Adolescents and alcohol misuse -- Adolescents and drug misuse -- Adolescents, young adults and smoking -- Adult children of alcoholics -- Advertising for alcohol -- Advertising for tobacco products -- Aerosols addiction -- Age and addiction -- Alcohol misuse -- Alcohol misuse: The Michigan Alcoholism Screening Test (MAST) -- Alcoholics Anonymous: The Twelve Steps -- Alcohol poisoning -- Alcohol's effects on the body -- Alternative therapies for addiction -- Amphetamine misuse -- Anabolic steroids -- Anesthesia misuse -- Anhedonia -- Antabuse -- Anticholinergics -- Anxiety -- Anxiety medication misuse -- Autoerotic asphyxiation -- Baclofen -- Barbiturates -- Behavioral addictions: Overview -- Behavioral addictions: Treatment -- Behavioral Disorders in the DSM-5: Disruptive, Impulse-Control and Conduct Disorders -- Behavioral therapies for addictions -- Benzodiazepine misuse -- Betty Ford Center, The Hazelden Betty Ford Foundation -- Binge drinking -- Bipolar disorder and addiction -- Birth defects and alcohol -- Birth defects and drug use -- Birth defects and smoking -- Blood alcohol content (BAC) -- Body modification addiction -- Brain changes with addiction -- Bupropion -- Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) -- Caffeinated alcoholic drinks -- Caffeine addiction -- Caffeine's effects on the body -- Canada's drug strategy (CDS) -- Cancer and substance misuse -- Cannabis-induced psychosis -- Celebrities and substance misuse -- Center for Substance Abuse Prevention (CSAP).
Target Audience Note:	10-A.