Substance use and related addictive disorders rate amongst the top four risk factors contributing to the global burden of disease and form an increasingly important part of medical and healthcare practice. Substance use disorders can cause, mimic, underlie or complicate a large number of common medical and psychiatric disorders. Making a correct diagnosis of the substance use disorder can facilitate clinical diagnosis, avoid unnecessary tests, shorten the hospital stay and make the clinician’s and patient’s life easier and safer.

Part of the successful Oxford Specialist Handbooks series, the second edition of Addiction Medicine is a concise and practical guide for students, practitioners of medicine and other health professions who come into contact with people with substance use disorders. Providing up-to-date practical assessment, diagnosis, treatment and management options, this edition expands on the first edition through updated content and global coverage of addiction medicine.

Edited by a global team of addiction specialists from multiple disciplines, Addiction Medicine contains everything you need to know to assist in the assessment, diagnosis and clinical management of patients with substance use and related addictive disorders.

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1: John B. Saunders: The nature of addictive disorders
2: Peter Anderson, Katherine M. Conigrave, Louisa Degenhardt, Wayne Hall, and Tim Stockwell: Epidemiology and prevention
3: Kazutaka Ikeda, Daisuke Nishizawa, David J. Nutt, and John B. Saunders: Pharmacology and pathophysiology
4: Sawitri Assanangkornchai and John B. Saunders: The scope of intervention
5: Glenys Dore, Noeline C. Latt, and John B. Saunders: Establishing the diagnosis
6: Glenys Dore, Noeline C. Latt, E. Jane Marshall, John B. Saunders, and Peter Thompson: Acute care
7: Stephen Jurd and John B. Saunders: Ongoing management of substance use disorders
8: Renee Bittoun, Katherine M. Conigrave, Hisatsugu Miyata, and Nicholas Zwar: Tobacco
9: Robert Batey, Katherine M. Conigrave, Colin Drummond, Noeline C. Latt, E. Jane Marshall, David J. Nutt, Richard Saitz, and John B. Saunders: Alcohol
10: H. Valerie Curran, Margaret Haney, David J. Nutt, and John B. Saunders: Cannabis
11: Robert Batey, Katherine M. Conigrave, Noeline C. Latt, David J. Nutt, John B. Saunders, Andrew J. Saxon, and George Woody: Opioids
12: James Bell: Pain and opioids
13: Noeline C. Latt, David J. Nutt, and John B. Saunders: Benzodiazepines and the other sedative-hypnotics
14: Glenys Dore, Walter Ling, and David J. Nutt: Psychostimulants
15: David J. Nutt and Adam R. Winstock: Hallucinogens and dissociative drugs
16: Jenny Bearn, Jonathan Brett, Adam Brodie, Katherine M. Conigrave, Shivani Khan, Janie Sheridan, Iain Smith, Catherine Woodstock Striley, David Taylor, and Adam R. Winstock: Other drugs
17: Jason P. Connor and Gerald F. X. Feeney: Polysubstance use
18: Robert Batey, Katherine M. Conigrave, Paul Haber, and John Strang: Injecting drug use
19: Henrietta Bowden-Jones, Sanju George, Yasunobu Komoto, David J. Nutt, and Taku Sato: Gambling
20: Hideki Nakayama and Hiroshi Sakuma: Gaming
21: Takayuki Harada, Susumu Higuchi, Satoko Mihara, and John B. Saunders: Other addictive disorders
22: Glenys Dore, Anne Lingford-Hughes, and John B. Saunders: Psychiatric comorbidity
23: Noeline C. Latt, John B. Saunders, and Sue Wilson: Specific clinical situations
24: Sawitri Assanangkornchai, Tatiana Balachova, Yvonne Bonomo, Katherine M. Conigrave, Ilana B. Crome, Glenys Dore, Bradley Freeburn, Marianne Jauncey, Michael Levy, Corinne Lim, Ross McCormick, and Kim Wolff: Special populations
25: Jonathan Brett, Tim Neumann, Richard Saitz, John B. Saunders, Claudia Spies, and Pierluigi Struzzo: Substance use and specific health care settings
26: Katherine M. Conigrave, Glenys Dore, Emily Finch, Ralph Hingson, Noeline C. Latt, Sally Porter, and John B. Saunders: Legal and ethical issues
27: Resources

Edited by:

John B. Saunders - Professor and Consultant Physician in Internal Medicine and Addiction Medicine, University of Queensland, University of Sydney, St. John of God Health Care, Wesley Health Care, and South Pacific Private Hospital, Sydney, Australia

Katherine M. Conigrave - Professor in Addiction Medicine and Public Health, Sydney Medical School, University of Sydney, and Royal Prince Alfred Hospital and Concord Hospitals, Sydney, Australia

Noeline C. Latt - Addiction Medicine Specialist, Royal North Shore Hospital and Sydney Medical School, University of Sydney, Australia

David J. Nutt - Professor of Psychopharmacology, Division of Brain Science, Dept of Medicine, Hammersmith Hospital, Imperial College London, UK

E. Jane Marshall - Consultant Psychiatrist, Alcohol Studies, South London and Maudsley National Health Service Trust and the National Addiction Centre, Institute of Psychiatry, King's College London, UK

Walter Ling - Professor of Psychiatry, Integrated Substance Abuse Program (ISAP), School of Medicine, University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA), Los Angeles, CA, USA

Susumu Higuchi - Director, National Hospital Organization Kurihama Medical and Addiction Center, Kanagawa, Japan

`Review from previous edition Above all this is a hands-on text, with clear advice as to what to do in the emergency room or ward. It will not only support the individual trainee but it could encourage an interest in a fascinating aspect of medicine' Alcohol and Alcoholism

`A good balance between evidence-based practice and the contributors' sound clinical experience.' Doody's Notes (Michael Easton MD, Rush University Medical Center)

`For those after a compact sourse of good clinical information on a broad range of addiction medicine topics, [this book] is a good choice.' Dr Chris Holmwood, Drug and Alcohol Services South Australia