Hamid Ghodse & Helen Herrman 
Substance Abuse Disorders 
Evidence and Experience

Substance abuse disorders are among the most prevalent
psychiatric disorders and are frequently comorbid with other
psychiatric and health conditions and accompanied by social
problems; however, they remain under-recognized and under-treated.
Many physicians and mental health practitioners receive
little-to-no training in the identification and treatment of these
disorders. Approaches to their prevention include some of the
major success stories in modern public health as well as some of
the deepest controversies in public life. This new title in the WPA
series Evidence and Experience in Psychiatry informs
psychiatrists and a wide range of professional groups from health
and social services about these disorders and their treatment and
control.

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BMA Book Awards

Зміст

List of Contributors.

Preface.

SECTION 1 DRUGS.

1 Epidemiology of Drug Abuse: A Global
Overview (Maria-Elena Medina-Mora, Tania Real and
Rebeca Robles).

2 Drug Abuse: Prevention (Vladimir B. Poznyak,
James White and Nicolas Clark).

3 Drug Abuse: Treatment and Management (Fabrizio
Schifano).

4 Commentaries.

4.1 Measuring, Preventing and Treating Global Drug Abuse
(Kylie D. Reed, Mark Prunty and John Strang).

4.2 Epidemiology, Treatment and Prevention of Addictive
Disorders (Pedro Ruiz).

4.3 The Global Challenge of Illegal Drugs (Neil
Mc Keganey).

4.4 Drug Misuse – Lessons Learned Through the Modern
Science (Igor Koutsenok).

4.5 An Integrated Approach to Drug-Abuse Treatment: The Role of
Prevention (Abdu’l-Missagh Ghadirian).

4.6 Informing the Field of Substance Misuse: Progress and
Challenges (David A. Deitch).

SECTION 2 ALCOHOL.

5 Epidemiology of Alcohol Abuse: Extent and Nature of the
Problem (Jayadeep Patra, Andriy V. Samokhvalov and
Jurgen Rehm).

6 The Prevention of Alcohol Problems (John B.
Saunders and Noeline C. Latt).

7 Alcohol-Use Disorders – Treatment and
Management (Filippo Passetti and Colin
Drummond).

8 Commentaries.

8.1 Perverse Interpretation of Evidence in Alcohol Policy
(Steve Allsop).

8.2 Implementing the Evidence Base (Duncan
Raistrick).

8.3 Further Insights into the Burden of Alcohol Use on Mental
Illness (Nady el-Guebaly).

8.4 Alcohol Issues – What Next? (Griffith
Edwards).

8.5 The Evolving Global Burden of Disease from Alcohol
(Joshua Tsoh and Helen Fung-Kum Chiu).

8.6 A Timely Review of Alcohol Related Disorders (Nasser Loza
and Waleed Fawzi).

SECTION 3 TOBACCO.

9 Epidemiology of Tobacco Use (Ilana B. Crome and
Marcus R. Munafo).

10 Tobacco Use: Prevention (Adriana Blanco, Vera
da Costa e Silva and Maristela Monteiro).

11 Tobacco Abuse: Treatment and
Management (Susanna Galea).

12 Commentaries.

12.1 Challenges in Reducing the Disease Burden of Tobacco
Smoking (Coral Gartner and Wayne Hall).

12.2 Public Health and Tobacco Use (Pim Cuijpers).

12.3 Decreasing the Health Hazards of Tobacco: Necessary and
Possible, But not Easy (Ahmad Mohit).

12.4 Overcoming State Addiction to Tobacco Industry (Robert
West).

12.5 The Framework Convention on Tobacco Control: The Importance
of Article 14 (Robyn Richmond).

12.6 Comments Regarding Epidemiology of Tobacco Use, Tobacco
Use: Prevention and Tobacco Abuse: Treatment and Management (Yu
Xin).

Index.

Про автора

Hamid Ghodse is Professor of Psychiatry and International
Drug Policy at St George’s Hospital Medical School. He has been
President of the International Narcotics Control Board since 2004,
and a member of the board since 1992. Director of the International
Centre for Drug Policy (UN) in Vienna. Editor of many books on
addiction. He was appointed as inaugural Chair of the International
Health Advisory Board in the UK in November 2009.

Helen Herrman is Director of the WHO Collaborating Centre
in Mental Health, Melbourne. She has been Secretary of Publications
for the World Psychiatric Association since 2005 She is also
Regional Vice-President Oceania, World Federation for Mental
Health, and Vice-President of the International Federation of
Psychiatric Epidemiology.

Mario Maj is President of the World Psychiatric
Association. Formerly he has been President of the Italian
Psychiatric Association (since 2000); President of the Italian
Society of Biological Psychiatry (since 1990); Secretary-General of
the Association of European Psychiatrists (2001-2002); President of
the Association of European Psychiatrists (2002).

Norman Sartorius is President of the International
Association for the Promotion of Mental Health Programmes. Honorary
Fellow of the Royal College of Psychiatrists of the United Kingdom
of Great Britain, of the Royal Australian and New Zealand College
of Psychiatrists and of the American College of Psychiatry;
Distinguished Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association.
Member of the WHO Expert Advisory Panel on Mental Health and a
member of the WPA Council.