Guides and handbooks are reference manuals usually consulted for basic information or instruction, quick fact-finding, or for a concise and authoritative survey of a topic.
Overview of the knowledge and skills those training as alcohol or other drug counselors need to pass their final degree program, certification, and licensing examinations.
Presents research-based principles of addiction treatment for a variety of drugs, including nicotine, alcohol, and illicit and prescription drugs, that can inform drug treatment programs and services.
Provides basic consumer health information about alcohol abuse, addiction, and related health effects, with facts about treatment and recovery. Includes index, glossary of related terms, and other resources.
Includes 60 contributions covering drug-related issues in criminalistics, pathology, toxicology, and medical emergencies. Topics include testing for impairment and workplace drug use, the pharmacokinetics of abused drugs, alternate testing matrices, drugs in sports, and addiction medicine.
Provides basic consumer health information about the abuse of illegal drugs and misuse of prescription and over-the-counter medications, with facts about addiction, treatment, and recovery.
Covers alcohol, tranquilizers and sedative hypnotics, inhaled substances, tobacco and nicotine, caffeine and the methylxanthines, psychomotor stimulants, the opiates, antipsychotic drugs, antidepressants and mood stimulators, cannabis, and hallucinogens.