Introduction to Addiction Psychiatry

A rapid impact, illustrated textbook on addiction - a neuropsychiatric disease and leading cause of multiorgan toxicity, injuries, and death.

R. Andrew Chambers (Author), Kevin G. Masterson (Author)

9781009501392, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 10 April 2025

265 pages
23.5 x 15.5 x 1.5 cm, 0.396 kg

This essential, concept-oriented book provides a highly integrative and translational approach to addiction, offering a deep understanding of the condition and its close biological-causal-developmental linkage with mental illness. The book explains addiction around five fundamental components that define disease: 1) Population Impact; 2) Symptom Sets; 3) Disorder of Anatomical Structure and Function; 4) Biological Risk Amplification; and 5) Diagnosis and Treatment. Key evidence and concepts from basic neuroscience are translated to epidemiological, clinical-observational, and treatment levels. The book discusses the broad reach and potent clinical capabilities of addiction psychiatry teams using integrative diagnostics and multi-dimensional treatment plans for patients across the entire addiction-mental illness spectrum. It introduces science-based psychotherapies, therapeutic experiences, medication and neurostimulatory treatments used by addiction psychiatrists in different settings to advance patients through all stages of recovery. An illustrated foundation for advanced undergraduates, physicians, allied clinicians, and scientists entering brain-behavioural health fields.

Foreword
1. Population impact- Epidemiology
2. Specific symptom sets- Clinical Phenomenology
3. A disorder of anatomical structure and function Neurobiology, 4. Biological risk amplification- Disease Vulnerability
5. Diagnosis and treatment- Disease tracking, Reduction and Remission.

Subject Areas: Clinical psychology [MMJ]