Clinician's Guide To Cocaine Addiction: Theory Research & Treatment (Guilford Substance Abuse Series) - Hardcover

Everything you ever wanted to know about cocaine is contained in this comprehensive, highly readable book. It should be of benefit to scholars and researchers, as well as practicing clinicians.'' --Charles R. Schuster, Ph.D., National Institute on Drug Abuse This is a very good book. It makes a real contribution to the practical literature on cocaine. I found it highly informative...it is written at a level that nonspecialists in the area will also find both entertaining and useful.''--Charles P. O'Brien, Ph.D., Addiction Treatment Research Center, University of Pennsylvania "I had forgotten how many outstanding researchers in cocaine either are presently or were recently at the Yale Substance Abuse Center...In addition, I had forgotten the breadth of research on cocaine at Yale; from neurochemistry to history to epidemiology to medication development to psychotherapy to genetics to comorbidity. Finally, I had forgotten how many important findings were first described at Yale...Given this wealth of talent, this edited text is much better than other single-university texts...Most chapters provide a well-referenced and fair summary of prior work, plus a presentation of clinical examples and existing programs at Yale...Offers a good description of the more important areas in cocaine research." --John R. Hughes, M.D., The American Journal on Addictions "A well informed and highly informative compendium on cocaine theory, research, and treatment....Achieves broad coverage of the science of cocaine. The editors take the reader on a well-planned and informative tour of cocaine research....Coverage of [these] novel...more speculative areas helps to set this text apart from earlier books on cocaine....[provides] the reader with an understanding of the historical significance, current applications, and future implications of the scientific findings...Perhaps one of the greatest teaching strengths of this work is its ability to serve as a template for systematic research development in other scientific areas....Scholarly in its breadth and depth of coverage....An outstanding contribution to the field of substance abuse and is likely to become a standard reference text for both clinicians and scientists involved in cocaine research and treatment." -- Contemporary Psychology "Redundancy is unavoidable in any multiauthored book, but it is minimal in this volume. The material from basic research and relevant clinical data is well-organized. The state-of-the-art knowledge is derived from data from direct clinical research on cocaine addiction rather than from the extrapolation of opinions and dogma from some related alchoholism literature. This book is recommended as a textbook on cocaine addiction for psychiatrists who work mostly with chemically addicted patients and as an authoirative source book for general psychiatrists who may from time to time seek a quick reference on cocaine addiction. After reading this book, the clinician can better understand or handle his or her next cocaine-addictedpatient more competently and comfortably." -- American Journal of Psychiatry "Today, the field is too vast and complex for one person to keep on top of all the developments. It would take an entire institution to accurately and competently represent the current state of knowledge on cociane addiction. Thankfully, there is such a place: the Yale Substance Abuse Research Center. In Clinician's Guide to Cocaine Addiction they tell all....Kosten and Kleber have provided the best that is available today for successful treatment." -- Journal of Psychoactive Drugs "This is an informative, readable guide to the theory, research, and treatment of cocaine addiction." -- The Addiction Letter "Mental health professionals working with substance abusers, counselors, health-care providers, and students in advanced undergraduate and graduate-level courses on drug abuse and its treatment, will find this text to be a valuable source." -- Biological Abstracts/RPM , ..".I would strongly recommend this book to all professionals who are treating people for cocaine-related problems. This volume and the multidisciplinary work at Yale represent a major contribution to the field and substantially inform our understanding of cocaine." -- Hospital and Community Psychiatry "A well informed and highly informative compendium on cocaine theory, research, and treatment....Achieves broad coverage of the science of cocaine. The editors take the reader on a well-planned and informative tour of cocaine research....Coverage of [these] novel...more speculative areas helps to set this text apart from earlier books on cocaine....[provides] the reader with an understanding of the historical significance, current applications, and future implications of the scientific findings...Perhaps one of the greatest teaching strengths of this work is its ability to serve as a template for systematic research development in other scientific areas....Scholarly in its breadth and depth of coverage....An outstanding contribution to the field of substance abuse and is likely to become a standard reference text for both clinicians and scientists involved in cocaine research and treatment." --"Contemporary Psychology" "Redundancy is unavoidable in any multiauthored book, but it is minimal in this volume. The material from basic research and relevant clinical data is well-organized. The state-of-the-art knowledge is derived from data from direct clinical research on cocaine addiction rather than from the extrapolation of opinions and dogma from some related alchoholism literature. This book is recommended as a textbook on cocaine addiction for psychiatrists who work mostly with chemically addicted patients and as an authoirative source book for general psychiatrists who may from time to time seek a quick reference on cocaine addiction. After reading this book, the clinician can better understand or handle his or her next cocaine-addicted patient more competently and comfortably."--"American Journal of Psychiatry" "Today, the field is too vast and complex for one person to keep on top of all the developments. It would take an entire institution to accurately and competently represent the current state of knowledge on cociane addiction. Thankfully, there is such a place: the Yale Substance Abuse Research Center. In "Clinician's Guide to Cocaine Addiction" they tell all....Kosten and Kleber have provided the best that is available today for successful treatment."--"Journal of Psychoactive Drugs" "This is an informative, readable guide to the theory, research, and treatment of cocaine addiction." --"The Addiction Letter" "Mental health professionals working with substance abusers, counselors, health-care providers, and students in advanced undergraduate and graduate-level courses on drug abuse and its treatment, will find this text to be a valuable source." --"Biological Abstracts/RPM" .,.".I would strongly recommend this book to all professionals who are treating people for cocaine-related problems. This volume and the multidisciplinary work at Yale represent a major contribution to the field and substantially inform our understanding of cocaine." --"Hospital and Community Psychiatry"

A product of many years' work by researchers at the renowned Yale Substance Abuse Research Center, this volume constitutes a comprehensive resource on cocaine. Unusually coherent for an edited book, the volume's chapters reflect the contributors' long collaboration in making significant contributions to the field. The Clinician's Guide covers the history of cocaine research, the pharmacology and phenomenology of the drug, and current treatment approaches for cocaine abuse.