NCJ Number
137817
Editor(s)
K K Redda,
C A Walker,
G Barnett
Date Published
1989
Length
247 pages
Annotation
This book includes manuscripts presented at the 11th Annual Clinical Pharmacy Symposium which focused primarily on the subjects of cocaine and marijuana. The scope of the book's discussion was expanded to include other relevant topics including designer drugs and the uses, misuses, and abuses of anabolic steroids. It is targeted at the scientific community, health care practitioners, social workers, and psychologists.
Abstract
The introductory chapters discuss the national perspective on drug abuse, the behavioral pharmacology of drug abuse, and various aspects of drug abuse education and prevention. Chapters related to cocaine cover its pharmacology and toxicology, cocaine kinetics in humans, and the medical and psychiatric treatment of cocaine abuse. Three chapters deal with the pharmakinetics and pharmacodynamics of marijuana, its effects on testicular function, and the detection of marijuana through urinalysis. The four subsequent chapters examine the emergence of different designer drugs and their pharmacology, while the final chapter covers the use of anabolic steroids by athletes. Chapter references