Table of Contents

Table of Contents

Preface

Cocaine Abuse and Today’s Practice of Dentistry
(Mohamed A. Bassiouny, Restorative Dentistry Department, Temple University School of Dentistry, Philadelphia)pp.1-38

Cocaine-Dependent Patients with Antisocial Personality Disorder
(Nena Messina, David Farabee, Richard Rawson, UCLA Integrated Substance Abuse Programs, USA)pp.39-62

Drug Abuse and Neuro-AIDS
(Avindra Nath, Departments of Neurology, Neuroscience Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, Kurt F. Hauser, Departments of Anatomy and Neurobiology, Mark Prendergast, Department of Psychology, et al.) pp.63-82

Drug Abuse
(Manoel Jorge Nobre and Vanessa Moreno Castilho)pp.83-110

Cross-Cultural Parent-Child Relations: The Role of Parental Monitoring in Youth’s Substance Abuse Behaviors in Hungary and the United States
(Bettina F. Piko, University of Szeged, Hungry, Kevin M. Fitzpatrick, University of Arkansas, USA) pp.111-128

Childhood Sexual Abuse and Substance Use Problems: Disentangling a Complex Association;
(Carolyn E. Sartor, Alexis E. Duncan, Vivia V. McCutcheon, Arpana Agrawal, Washington University School of Medicine, Department of Psychiatry, USA)pp.129-138

Alcohol and Substance Abuse Among Older Adults
(Susanna Nemes, Jennifer Weil, Social Solutions International, Christine Zeiler, Kelly Munly, Kristen Holtz, Jeffrey Hoffman, Danya International Inc., USA)pp.139-156

Enhancing Self-Efficacy in a Strengths Perspective: Working with a Homeless Chinese Adult with Substance Abuse Problems
(Yau Chui Wah, The Society for the Aid and Rehabilitation of Drug Abusers, Hong Kong)pp.157-172

Suicide Risk in Substance Abusers with Schizophrenia
(Mauricio Pompili, Caterina Tatarelli, Giorgio D. Kotzalidis and Roberto Tatarelli)pp.173-190

Big, buff and dependent: exercise dependence, muscle dysmorphia and anabolic steroid use in bodybuilders
(Dave Smith,Manchester Metropolitan Univ.,Bruce Hale,Pennsylvania State Univ. Deborah Rhea, Texas Christian Univ.) pp.191-228

Seeking Safety for men: Clinical and research experiences
(Lisa M. Najavits ,Harvard Medical School, Martha Schmitz, San Francisco VA Medical Center, Kay M. Johnson,St. Luke’s Roosevelt Hospital) pp.229-250

Relationship between personality scales of impulsiveness and discounting of monetary gains and losses in smokers and never smokers
(Taiki Takahashi,Hidemi OONO, Yu OHMURA, Nozomi KITAMURA, Mark RADFORD,Hokkaido Univ. Japan) pp.251-264

Sexual abuse in men with substance use problems: Assessment and treatment issues
(Christine M. Courbasson, Jim Cullen, Karolina Konieczna)pp.265-280

Explaining Type 2 Diabetes: Comparing Patients’ and Physicians’ Models in Mexico
(Raminta Daniulaityte, Center for Interventions, Treatment and Addictions Research, Wright State University, School of Medicine, Dayton, Javier E. García de Alba García and Ana L. Salcedo Rocha, Social, Epidemiological and Health Services Research Unit(UISESS), Guadalajara, Mexico) pp.281-294

Cognitive Dysfunction in Cocaine Abuse: Evidence for Impairments in Impulse Control and Decision-Making;
(Laurie M. Rilling, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, USA and Bryon Adinoff, VA North Texas Health Care System, USA) pp.295-310

Current Controversies in the Assessment and Treatment of Heroin Addiction;
(Robert J. Craig, Jesse Brown VA Medical Center, USA) pp.311-332

New Research on Methamphetamine Abuse (Gender Differences in Methamphetamine Effects: Review of Animal and Human Studies),
(Bin Liu and Dean E. Dluzen (Dept. of Anatomy, Northeastern Ohio Univ. College of Medicine (NEOUCOM), Rootstown, OH))pp.333-358

Social Norms and Area Quid Chewing in Taiwanese Adolescents- A preliminary study
(Shih Ming Li Ms,National Cheng Kung Univ., Taiwan,Toko Univ., Jehn Shyun Huang,National Cheng Kung Univ.)pp.359-366

Management of HIV/HCV coinfection in drug abusers
(J.H. Khalsa, F. Vocci)pp.367-392

Psychotropic Analgesic Nitrous Oxide [PAN] for Substance Abuse Withdrawal: Current Status
(Mark A Gillman, South African Brain Research Institute, Johannesburg, South Africa)pp.393-426

Selective Serotonin Reuptake Inhibitors Withdrawal Syndromes: New Insights Into Pathophysiology and Treatment
(Elena Tomba, Emanuela Offidani and Giovanni A. Fava, Affective Disorders Program, Department of Psychology, University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy)pp.427-450

Benzodiazepine Withdrawal Syndrome and Strategies for Discontinuing Benzodiazepine Use: Appropriate Treatment with SSRIs and SNRIs
(Mutsuhiro Nakao, Kyoko Nomura, Takeaki Takeuchi, Department of Hygiene and Public Health, Teikyo University School of Medicine & Division of Psychosomatic Medicine, Teikyo University Hospital, Tokyo, Japan)pp.451-470

Carisoprodol Withdrawal Syndrome
(Roy R. Reeves, Randy S. Burke, and Mark E. Ladner, Mental Health Service, G.V. Montgomery VA Medical Center, Jackson, MS, Department of Psychiatry, University of Mississippi School of Medicine)pp.471-482

Is Aspirin Withdrawal Detrimental for Patients with or at Risk
for Coronary Artery Disease? A Meta-Analysis
(Giuseppe G.L. Biondi-Zoccai et al., Policlinico San Donato, Italy)pp.483-502

Changes Observed in Circulatory and Alimentary Systems
in Alcohol Dependent Patients during the Withdrawal Perio
(Maria Klopocka, Jacek Budzyñski and Maciej Œwitkowski et al., Nicolaus Copernicus Univ., Poland)pp.503-556

The Effects of Acute, Chronic and Withdrawal from Chronic Ethanol on Emotional Learning
(Danielle Gulick and Thomas J. Gould) pp.557-584

Topographic Brain Mapping of Caffeine Use and Caffeine Withdrawal
(Roy R. Reeves, University of Mississippi School of Medicine, USA and Frederick A. Struve, Yale University School of Medicine, USA)pp.585-598

Craving, Leptin and Metabolic Assessment in Subjects with Cocaine Abuse-Dependence: Results From an Original Study
(Andreoli S, Martinotti G, Mazza M, and et al, Department of Psychiatry, University of Sacred Heart, Rome, Italy)pp.599-608

Index