Owen Bowden-Jones

Club Drugs and Novel Psychoactive Substances (eBook, ePUB)

The Clinician's Handbook

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Over the last decade many hundreds of new psychoactive drugs have emerged onto illicit markets. This flood of new drugs has led to clinicians being unsure of the rapidly emerging changing evidence base and uncertain of the best approaches to assessment and clinical management. This book provides a concise, accessible summary of these emerging drugs. By categorizing the hundreds of new drugs by their predominant psychoactive effect - sedative, stimulant and hallucinogenic - the book helps clinicians to manage a drug they are unfamiliar with by using their experience of other drugs with similar psychoactive properties. Written for clinicians from across the frontline, from A&E staff to drug treatment professionals, the authors draw on numerous clinical examples from their own clinical experiences to illustrate aspects of assessment and management. Club drugs and novel psychoactive substances will continue to challenge clinicians and this handbook provides readers with an invaluable introduction to this complex area.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. Oktober 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781009028431
• Artikelnr.: 62735101

Autorenporträt

Owen Bowden-Jones is Consultant in Addiction Psychiatry and Founder of the CNWL Club Drug Clinic, London, and Honorary Professor at University College London. He is Chair of the Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs and National Clinical Adviser to the Alcohol, Drugs and Tobacco division at Public Health England.

Inhaltsangabe

Part I: 1. Introduction 2. What are NPS and Club Drugs and why are they important
3. A brief history of NPS production and distribution
4. Drugs classification framework for Club Drugs and NPS
5. Clinical challenge of Club Drugs and NPS
Part II. Stimulant Drugs
6. Stimulant drugs: introduction
7. Stimulant drugs: cocaine
8. Stimulant drugs: amphetamine-type
9. Stimulant drugs: methamphetamine
10. Stimulant drugs: MDMA
11. Stimulant drugs: synthetic cathinones
Part III. Depressant Drugs
12. Depressant drugs: introduction
13. Depressant drugs: GHB/GBL
14. Depressant drugs: Fentanyl, Fentanyl analogues and other opioid NPS
15. Depressant drugs: Benzodiazepine NPS
16. Depressant drugs: Ketamine and its anaologues
Part IV. Synthetic Cannabinoid Receptor Agonsits
17. Synthetic cannabinoid receptor agonists (SCRAs)
Part V. Hallucinogens
18. Hallucinogens
Part VI. Concluding Remarks and References
19. Concluding Remarks
20. References.