Nicotine Addiction | Principles and Management

C. Tracy Orleans (u. a.)

ISBN 10: 0195064410 / ISBN 13: 9780195064414

Editore: Oxford University Press, 1993

Nicotine Addiction | Principles and Management | C. Tracy Orleans (u. a.) | Buch | Gebunden | Englisch | 1993 | Oxford University Press | EAN 9780195064414 | Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, 36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr[at]libri[dot]de | Anbieter: preigu Print on Demand. Codice articolo 133969246

Riassunto:

This comprehensive, clinical text on tobacco dependence provides clinicians not only with information on how to diagnose and treat nicotine addicted patients, but also with the medical, epidemiological and behavioral science backgrounds necessary for understanding the process and dynamics of tobacco dependence. The book breaks new ground by defining and explaining nicotine addiction as a primary problem or disease in its own right, instead of as a habit or risk factor for other diseases. It follows the traditional outline of medical texts: Part I covers etiology, pathogenesis and complications; Part II covers diagnosis and treatment; and Part III covers prevention and public health.

Part I is designed to present an overview of the biological, psychological, social, and societal factors that contribute to nicotine dependence. Topics include: a description of nicotine delivery systems, psychopharmacology, economics, natural history and epidemiology, mortality, morbidity, and environmental tobacco smoke exposure. Part II provides the clinician with practical guidelines and tools for treating nicotine dependence. The authors describe a stepped-care treatment model, with brief interventions that can be easily integrated into routine medical practice. This section also covers the role of psychopharmacologic and formal treatment programs, the treatment of smokeless toabacco addiction, and treating nicotine dependence in pregnant women and in people with medical illnesses, other chemical dependencies, or psychiatric disorders. The last section, on public health and prevention, focuses on worksite and community intervention programs. It also summarizes the research on smoking patterns and history in women, blacks, hispanics, youth, and older adults, and shows how intervention and prevention programs could be made more effective in these groups. Written by leading experts in this timely field, this imortant work contains information not found elsewhere.

Informazioni sull?autore:
Carole Tracy Orleans, Ph.D., is Director of Tobacco Control Research at the Fox Chase Cancer Center. A clinical psychologist specializing in behavioral medicine, she is widely recognized for her expertise in the development ad evaluation of model nicotine addiction treatments for special populations and settings.
John Slade, M.D., is Associate Professor of Medicine at the Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey. An internist specializing in the clinical and public health aspects of addicition medicine, Dr. Slade is widely recognized for his work to improve the clnical management of nicotine dependence and for his advocacy of aggressive public health measures to control this disease.

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Titolo: Nicotine Addiction | Principles and ...
Casa editrice: Oxford University Press
Data di pubblicazione: 1993
Legatura: Buch
Condizione: Neu