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| Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Platt, Jerome J. Cocaine addiction. Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 1997 (OCoLC)645856283 |
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| Document Type: | Book |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Jerome J Platt |
| ISBN: | 0674136322 9780674136328 |
| OCLC Number: | 35924672 |
| Description: | xiv, 458 p. ; 24 cm. |
| Responsibility: | Jerome J. Platt. |
Abstract:
Drawing on the latest work in medicine, psychiatry, neuroscience, pharmacology, epidemiology, social work, and sociology, the volume is a highly accessible reference on the history and use of cocaine, its physical and psychological effects, and the etiology and epidemiology of cocaine addiction. It also provides a critical evaluation of the pharmaceutical agents and psychosocial interventions that have been used to treat this addiction. Author Jerome J. Platt answers such basic questions as: What is cocaine? What forms does it come in? How is it administered? What does it do? What are the medical complications of cocaine addiction? What are the treatments, and how successful are they? Uniquely comprehensive, Cocaine Addiction makes all the latest information on this urgent subject readily available to medical professionals and practitioners, social workers and scholars, and anyone who cares to know more about this perennially troubling drug.
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