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I loved this book. The authors did a great job of taking technical, science-based information and making it easily understandable and relatable to our future professions as counselors.
The most thoroughly comprehensive book on all types of substance abuse - the history, the bio-neurological, the genetics, the demographics, all different types of drugs and other process addictions (gambling, gaming, sex), treatment. The graphics and graphs/tables are incredibly helpful and easy to understand. New editions (this was published in 2014) come out around every seven years, so I look forward to future editions because there has been so many synthetic drugs and other opiates i.e. fentanyl that were barely touched on since they simply were barely a blip on the radar. So too was legalized pot, and so I can imagine the next wave will become a much larger social and medical issue. The advent of Smartphones was barely mentioned as well, so I imagine that will become a greater topic, too.
This is literally a must-have, albeit expensive, text for anyone wanting to become well versed in addictions.
This is a great textbook. Broad but extensively detailed, comprehensive, and very readable. My only critique is that there is an updated DSM 5 section but in other parts it talks about the old Axis system. This was a text in my school counseling program for Intro to Addictions.
It was a textbook. It was relatively easy to read though it contained a lot of history, phsyiology, and theoretical information and the structuring of the chapters didn't always follow a predictable pattern. Also, the glossary tended to be off by a page number or two.
Textbook for Substance and Alcohol Abuse course in graduate social work program at Washington University in St. Louis. Very informative, very thorough, based on very current information. Clearly written with a very strong graphics emphasis for those who learn best verbally or visually or both. Not up to the standard of a Goodman & Gilman pharmacology text, but this book is for social workers and counselors seeking a medical approach to substance abuse, not medical students who are more the audience for Goodman & Gilman.
Reading it for my CDP Exam in December. Very informative in a straight forward kind of way. This is a really good book and easy to understand. Helps if you have some idea of how the brain works, but it's not required. Regardless of the profession you're in, it would be a good book to have a sense of how drugs and alcohol effect the brain as you're likely to come in contact with them somehow.
This is an excellent one. Enormous book stuffed with every kind of information about addictive substances, like the fact that methcathinone use in the Midwest stems from betel-nut addiction in the Orient, and the fact that it's theoretically impossible to get addicted to the amount of caffeine in a dose of Excedrin. Written by the director of the Haight-Ashbury Free Clinic system, who's a doctor of pharmacy, so he oughta know.
Great pharmacology book it gives you a complete knowledge on different drugs its history and its used today. This is the Guide or Bible for A&D Councelors
This is a super-comprehensive and interesting text about all kinds of psychoactive substances and compulsive behaviors. It's written so well that I don't want to skim it.