NCJ Number
163493
Editor(s)
L S Harris
Date Published
1996
Length
542 pages
Annotation
This monograph contains the Proceedings of the 57th Annual Scientific Meeting, The College on Problems of Drug Dependence, Inc.
Abstract
The President of The College on Problems of Drug Dependence opened the meeting with an address on Evidence-Based Treatment and Prevention: Research for the Health of the Public. Subjects addressed in 15 symposiums included: (1) workings of the brain reward system; (2) drug testing in the workplace; (3) functional evidence for effects of drugs of abuse on infection and immune responses; (4) endocrine function and the relationship to addictions; (5) basic neurobiology of abused drugs; (6) inhalant abuse; (7) the role of pharmacogenetics in the identification and administration of new medications for treating drug abuse; (8) the conflicts for parenting drug dependent women; (9) neurotoxicity and neuropathology associated with chronic cocaine abuse; (10) caffeine as a model drug of abuse; and (11) cross-cultural comparisons of substance abuse. Indexes, references, graphs, charts, tables