You might also like

Availability alert

More about New Treatments for Addiction

• Book details
• Synopsis
• Trending among others

You get 179 loyalty points

Book synopsis

New and improved therapies to treat and protect against drug dependence and abuse are urgently needed. In the United States alone about 50 million people regularly smoke tobacco and another 5 million are addicted to other drugs. In a given year, millions of these individuals attempt and with or without medical assistance and to quit using drugs, though relapse remains the norm. Furthermore, each year several million teenagers start smoking and nearly as many take illicit drugs for the first time. Research is advancing on promising new means of treating drug addiction using immunotherapies and sustained-release (depot) medications.The aim of this research is to develop medications that can block or significantly attenuate the psychoactive effects of such drugs as cocaine, nicotine, heroin, phencyclidine, and methamphetamine for weeks or months at a time. This represents a fundamentally new therapeutic approach that shows promise for treating drug addiction problems that were difficult to treat in the past. Despite their potential benefits, however, several characteristics of these new methods pose distinct behavioral, ethical, legal, and social challenges that require careful scrutiny. Such issues can be considered unique aspects of safety and efficacy that are fundamentally related to the distinct nature and properties of these new types of medications.

Book details

Book category Books in English Medicine Other branches of medicine Therapy & therapeutics

• Full title: New Treatments for Addiction
• Subtitle: Behavioral, Ethical, Legal, and Social Questions
• Author: Committee on Immunotherapies and Sustained-Release Formulations for Treating Drug Addiction, Board on Behavioral, Cognitive, and Sensory Sciences, Boa
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 320
• EAN: 9780309091282
• ISBN: 0309091284
• ID: 04578056
• Publisher: National Academies Press
• Weight: 513 g
• Dimensions: 229 × 152 × 20 mm
• Date of publishing: 18. December 2003

Trending among others

---

---

---