Addiction Controversies
eBook - ePub

Addiction Controversies

  1. 400 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Addiction Controversies

About this book

In the past, the prototypes for characterizing drug use were heroin and cocaine, so that research has focused on possible commonalities between any substance and these drugs. Addiction controversies explores the problems of the commonalities approach by looking at dissimilarities as well. The first chapters of Addiction Controversies trace the development of modern medical attitudes to drug use and the current controversy over its decriminalization. The second set of chapters examines the extent to which drugs have common biological and sociological mechanisms of action and contrasts these explanations. The final chapters consider the extent to which the desires for different substances are the same and the biological and social explanations of relapse. Clinicians, researchers and students in all areas of substance use will be stimulated by these challenges to current thinking and will enjoy the comparative approach that is taken by the contributors to Addiction Controversies.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half Title
  3. Title
  4. Copyright
  5. Contents
  6. Acknowledgement
  7. Preface
  8. List of Contributors
  9. 1. Drugspeak
  10. 2. The Natural History of Heroin Addiction
  11. 3. Heroin, Cocaine and Now Nicotine
  12. 4. Psychopharmacological Aspects of Psychoactive Substances
  13. 5. All Substance Use Pleasures Are Not the Same
  14. 6. Alcohol: A Positive Enhancer of Pleasurable Expectancies?
  15. 7. A Neuroelectric Approach to the Assessment of Psychoactivity in Comparative Substance Use
  16. 8. The Psychopharmacological and Neurochemical Consequences of Chronic Nicotine Administration
  17. 9. Drug-Induced Conditioned Behaviour: Novel Motivational Effect of Morphine in Rats
  18. 10. Drug Addiction as a Psychobiological Process
  19. 11. Cocaine and Mesoaccumbens Dopamine Neurotransmission
  20. 12. Physical Dependence on Alcohol and Other Sedatives
  21. 13. The Comparative Effects of Nicotine with Other Substances: A Focus on Brain Dopamine Systems
  22. 14. Discriminative Properties of Drugs of Abuse
  23. 15. Heroin and Cocaine: New Technologies, New Problems
  24. 16. Desires for Cocaine
  25. 17. Cognitions and Desire
  26. 18. Compulsion Craving and Conflict
  27. 19. Craving for Cigarettes and Psychoactive Drugs
  28. 20. Heuristics or Cognitive Deficits: How Should We Characterize Smokers’ Decision Making?
  29. 21. Social Cognition and Comparative Substance Use
  30. 22. Life Stress and the Use of Illicit Drugs, Alcohol and Tobacco: Empirical Findings, Methodological Problems and Attributions
  31. 23. Coping, Social Support and Drinking amongst Young Married Couples
  32. 24. Controversies in Substance Use Research
  33. References
  34. Index