212 Pages
by
Routledge
212 Pages
by
Routledge
212 Pages
by
Routledge
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Increase your awareness of the relative addiction liabilities of various drugs and drug classes that are commonly abused. A timely and masterful new book, Addiction Potential of Abused Drugs and Drug Classes clarifies, in contemporary terminology, the state of addiction liability of cocaine, opiates, alcohol, sedative-hypnotics, nicotine, anxiolytics, marijuana, inhalants and anesthetics, and PCP... Read more
Contents
Drug Dependence: Defining the Issues
- Addictiveness of Central Stimulants
- The Opioids: Abuse Liability and Treatments for Dependence
- Alcohol: Mechanisms of Addiction and Reinforcement
- Abuse Liability of Barbiturates and Other Sedative-Hypnotics
- An Analysis of the Addiction Liability of Nicotine
- Addiction Potential of Benzodiazepines and Non-Benzodiazepine Anxiolytics
- Cannabis Dependence and Tolerance Production
- Relative Addiction Potential of Major Centrally-Active Drugs and Drug Classes--Inhalants and Anesthetics
- PCP and Hallucinogens
- Selective Guide to Current Reference Sources: Addiction Potential of Abused Drugs
- Reference Notes Included
Biography
Barry Stimmel
