Publisher's Synopsis
This guide seeks to provide health-care professionals with clinical and research wisdom on alcoholism and addiction in a convenient, pocket-sized format. Intended to complement longer works on the same subject, it is grounded in both the central importance of the doctor-patient relationship and in the empirically-based DSM-IV-TR, systematically detailing all definitions and disorders within the entire addiction section.;It also presents research findings, including epidemiology data, treatment recommendations that address the newest medications and psychosocial therapeutic modalities, and tables and references. All three authors treat addictions and their complications on a daily basis in both inpatient and outpatient clinical settings.
