Athletes are always aiming to be faster, better, stronger. New techniques to enhance their sporting performance have increasingly been linked to use of novel psychoactive substances (NPS) and other hard-to-detect substances like performance-enhancing drugs. This book offers a ti…
Boston University psychiatrist Frances Frankenburg examines how the world's four most important mind-altering substances--alcohol, cocaine, nicotine, and opiates--have played a significant role throughout human history. She also explains how these powerful drugs affect the brain…
"Critical Issues in Alcohol and Drugs of Abuse Testing, Second Edition, addresses the general principles and technological advances for measuring drugs and alcohol, along with the pitfalls of drugs of abuse testing. Many designer drugs, for example, are not routinely tested in d…
"Over the last decade the UK, Europe and beyond have seen a dramatic change in the patterns of illicit drug use, particularly in adolescents and those in their twenties for whom heroin and crack cocaine have steady lost popularity (Figure 1). While younger drug users continue to…
Alarming media reports on pregnant mothers who use illicit drugs has resulted in increased state control of these women and their infants. This study examines how drug-using mothers in the NAS program at Sunny Hill Hospital for Children in Vancouver regard the laws, medical prac…
Legal Highs are without doubt the biggest drug scourge to blight the world since recreational drugs first hit the streets more than 100 years ago. Their growing menace opens up a new front in the drug war, shifting the battle line from the Colombian jungles, Moroccan valleys, Af…
"Booklet 1 provides a summary of the five subsequent booklets by reviewing their key findings and highlighting their policy implications. Booklet 2 focuses on drug demand and contains a global overview of the extent of and trends in drug use, including drug use disorders, and it…
The purpose of this book is to provide a broad scope of substance use disorder research and how these findings can impact treatment outcomes. The research and outcomes described in this book represent important principles related to identifying and understanding factors related …
