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Principles of Addiction Medicine 4th Edition

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This respected text from the American Society of Addiction Medicine is valuable for all physicians and mental-health personnel who specialize in addiction medicine and who treat patients with addiction disorders. The chapters blend scientific principles underlying addiction with the practical essentials of clinical addiction medicine. Many of the contributors are affiliated with leading government agencies that study addiction and its science, such as the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism and the National Institute on Drug Abuse. The book will appeal to a wide and interdisciplinary range of professionals, especially those with interest or duties relating to addiction-related disorders, and in particular physicians seeking certification status via either the American Board of Addiction Medicine or the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology.

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  1. ISBN-10
    0781774772
  2. ISBN-13
    978-0781774772
  3. Edition
    4th
  4. Publisher
    Lippincott Williams & Wilkins
  5. Publication date
    January 1, 2009
  6. Language
    English
  7. Dimensions
    8.5 x 2 x 11 inches
  8. Print length
    1570 pages
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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Lippincott Williams & Wilkins; 4th edition (January 1, 2009)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 1570 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0781774772
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0781774772
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 7.26 pounds
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 8.5 x 2 x 11 inches
  • Customer Reviews:
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Joseph Kline PhD, MD, MBA
5.0 out of 5 stars NOT the Fourth Edition!
Reviewed in the United States on September 10, 2008
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Like the reviewer above, I, too, bought the "2007" edition (thinking it was the new edition and was just using the old picture of the text) and just received the same old Third Edition (mine appears to be unused). Amazon has now updated the price, still pictures the Third Edition, and now says "out of stock." I'll be sending this one back. I already have it!

Here's the scoop. The Fourth Edition is expected to be published March 2009.

As to the 2003 Third Edition, it is excellent in every way. If you can't wait to start reading, get a used copy. Save your big bucks for the Fourth Edition when it is published next year.
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mechans
5.0 out of 5 stars very imp;ortant text in this field
Reviewed in the United States on December 5, 2012
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well illustrated well written and well editited. written in one voice comprehensive in a poorly followed field with few champions. Well deserved complements here. Keep up the good work and carry the cause further.
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William Haning
4.0 out of 5 stars The best in its class
Reviewed in the United States on June 7, 2001
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This will be a comparatively brief - and thus inadequate - review. It is entered to fill a void, as this text can't go on being listed with this site without some commentary.
Addiction medicine, and by extension addiction psychiatry constitute fields in early development when placed against their clinical counterparts of surgery, obstetrics, general medicine. The illness states covered in addictions are quite nearly as old as civilized humanity, so the problem isn't want of exposure. It has largely been want of interest. Probably not until the past two centuries have there been: 1) sufficiently effective treatments as to excite the interest of physicians, 2) suficiently sensitive technical and social systems that the consequences of addictions are now clearly seen.
As recently as ten years ago, there was a child's fistful of texts on addictions: Norman Miller's, Marc Shuckitt's, a crude syllabus by the American Society of Addiction Medicine - intentionaly leaving out the many excellent monographs that actually created the field, by Stephanie Brown, George Vaillant, and others. With reformulation of a 1981 textbook on substance abuse, Joyce Lowinson and Pedro Ruiz and colleagues added enormously to the effort to provide a single source that could be used by graduate trainees in addictions. But generally, the larger the text, the greater the need to spread the responsibility across a greater number of authors; and the more difficult the task of cohering the topics and avoiding overlap.
In 1998, Allan Graham and Terry Schultz took the loose-leaf edition of ASAM's Principles and both reformulated and re-formatted it, resulting in this 2nd Edition. The editorial rigor shows in the careful dovetailing of topics and a reduction in redundancy, as well as in the successful accomplishment of comprehensiveness. I suspect that Dr. Schultz's own criticism would have been the need for more on neuroscience, and that will likely be remedied in the next edition. The assigment of only 4 stars of a possible 5 does not indicate significant disappointment; I simply do not think that it is possible to achieve a completely comprehensive and readable effort when working from so huge a group of contributors, on the first pass. I want to save the fifth star for the next edition.
This text is presently employed by the John A. Burns School of Medicine, University of Hawaii, Addiction Psychiatry Residency Program as one of four core office references. This does not constitute an official endorsement by the University of Hawaii per se.
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A. Sosa
5.0 out of 5 stars Although I'm not in Medical School YET
Reviewed in the United States on September 23, 2012
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This book is helping me get a deeper understanding of addictions! I'm currently a Masters level clinician going back to school for Pre Med but also taking licensure for my Master degree in NCMHCE and CASAC, this few chapters I read opened up a deeper understanding!
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Deborah
1.0 out of 5 stars Great text, terrible Kindle versions
Reviewed in the United States on May 10, 2012
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I bought the Kindle version so I wouldn't have to lug the 7 lb textbook around. I wanted to use it as a textbook and put in lots of underlines or highlights (depending on the version). Every Kindle reading version I have tried is a nightmare. The Android won't even load it after I put in a few highlights. When I tried, it crashed not only the Kindle program but the whole phone. I had it on my iPod for a while and this seems to have worked the best for making highlights but now it locked up and won't reload after many attempts to remove and reinstall. The Kindle Keyboard takes several minutes to recognize each underline when I try to put one in, and I can't turn to the next page or do anything else while waiting. Underlining often crashes the program. I read half a paperback just waiting for underlines to register in a few chapters. Sometimes all my underlines disappear. Unless I close the Kindle while reading this book, it takes a long time to open, typically 5-20 minutes but sometimes up to 36 hours. It locks up at least once an hour and crashes. I cannot page back for a while after opening the book. Then I can page back only a few pages. After about 3 pages, it crashes. It is easier to hit the control that jumps back to the beginning of the chapter and page through using the forward page key to go back a few pages. My PC doesn't show the highlights I have made on the other devices. The iPad won't load it because it says I have it on too many other devices, even after I have removed it because it didn't work.
Update: my Android will now load the textbook after about 15 minutes but the highlights are bizarre. Each line of the highlight is in blue but the text is yellow within the blue. It is very hard to focus on. After about 15 minutes, it crashes and there are no longer any highlights when it opens again. The iPad will now load the book and shows the highlights but crashes a lot or locks up. The highlights I make don't show up on the Keyboard. The iPod now loads the book but opens to a page in the index and can't be moved to another page.

The tables and figures on the Kindle Keyboard cannot be enlarged enough to read.

The technical support is worthless. No one there by phone, chat, or email has been any help. The phone expert has run down the battery on my portable phone on 2 occasions telling me to uninstall this or that and reinstall it with no improvement. When the phone or chat person offers to refer the questions to the higher level experts, it has been a waste of time. The response takes weeks, and on only one occasion did I get a response that would have been helpful if my husband (who is more technically savvy than I am) had not figured it out weeks ago by reading some blogs. The other email responses from the experts gave some formula answer that did not address any of the questions I had asked.

This is a great text. It is a shame the Kindle programers can't come up with a Kindle version that works well as a large textbook which can be marked up and used for study or as a reference for practice.
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dalia
5.0 out of 5 stars COMPLETE!!
Reviewed in the United States on October 8, 2013
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If you are looking for a complete text book in addiction medicine, this is the one. Has everything from statistics, diagnsotic criterias and treatment...
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John E. Palmer
5.0 out of 5 stars Should be mandatory for all in the Addiction Medicine field ...
Reviewed in the United States on March 27, 2015
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Should be mandatory for all in the Addiction Medicine field to have this book. Comprehensive, well-written. Worth every penny you pay for it.
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