Addiction Medicine

The medical specialty which deals with the treatment of addiction is known as addiction medicine. It often overlaps with other areas, like mental health counseling, public health, psychiatry, psychology, internal medicine, etc. Acute intervention, detoxification, abstinence-based treatment, rehabilitation, harm reduction and individual and group therapies, are some of the common therapies that fall under addiction medicine. Relapse prevention is an important aspect in the treatment of substance abuse, especially alcoholism. Supportive psychotherapy and interpersonal therapy are extremely effective treatments for substance abuse. This book unravels the recent studies in the field of addiction medicine. It includes some of the vital pieces of work being conducted across the world, on various topics related to addiction medicine. Doctors, researchers and students actively engaged in this field will find this book full of crucial and unexplored concepts.