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A Handbook on Drug and Alcohol Abuse: The Biomedical Aspects by Gail Winger, Frederick G. Hofmann, and James H. Woods was published in New York by Oxford University Press in 1992. A 4th edition, updated with a chapter for "Club Drugs", was published in 2004.
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The American Journal of Drug and Alcohol Abuse is a bimonthly peer-reviewed medical journal covering all aspects of addiction. It was established in 1974 and is published by Taylor & Francis . The editor-in-chief is Bryon Adinoff ( University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center ).
The third edition, published in 1980, was the first to recognize substance abuse (including drug abuse) and substance dependence as conditions separate from substance abuse alone, bringing in social and cultural factors. The definition of dependence emphasised tolerance to drugs, and withdrawal from them as key components to diagnosis, whereas ...
Prescription drug and over-the-counter (OTC) drug abuse together constitutes 2.6 percent of all primary illicit substances admitted to South African drug treatment facilities. [78] However, lifetime illicit drug use for prescription or OTC medicines was highest among adolescents, at 16 percent prevalence rate, followed by inhalants, club drugs ...
Chemistry, not moral failing, accounts for the brain’s unwinding. In the laboratories that study drug addiction, researchers have found that the brain becomes conditioned by the repeated dopamine rush caused by heroin. “The brain is not designed to handle it,” said Dr. Ruben Baler, a scientist with the National Institute on Drug Abuse.
It was originally called the National Household Survey on Drug Abuse, but was renamed in 2002 to its current name. [1] The NSDUH, along with the Monitoring the Future , is one of the two main ways the National Institute on Drug Abuse measures drug use in the United States.