Table of Contents

1 Definition and Demographics of Addiction .......................................... 1
Andrei D. Sdrulla, Grace Chen, and Kim Mauer
2 Legal Issues .............................................................................................. 17
Bobby Ray Malbrough
3 Signs and Symptoms of Substance Abuse ............................................. 23
Elizabeth Ngo and Shalini Shah
4 Speaking with Your Patient about the Problem ................................... 33
Shalini Shah
5 Screening and Assessment for Substance Abuse .................................. 43
Elizabeth Ngo and Shalini Shah
6 Assessment of Pain .................................................................................. 53
Jatin Joshi and Vinay Puttanniah
7 Food and Abuse ....................................................................................... 63
Ike Eriator, Efosa Ogiamien, and Xiaoli Dai
8 Alcohol Dependence Syndrome ............................................................. 77
Ameana Khan, Suresh Menon, and Sreekumar Kunnumpurath
9 Tobacco .................................................................................................... 89
Debasish Basu, Sukanya Mitra, and Nalini Vadivelu
10 The Abuse of Agents Used to Induce or Maintain
General Anesthesia: Intravenous Hypnotics
and the Halogenated Hydrocarbons ...................................................... 109
Ethan O. Bryson
11 Prescription Drug Abuse ........................................................................ 127
Susan Dabu-Bondoc, Amit A. Shah, and Philip R. Effraim

12 Cocaine Abuse ......................................................................................... 143
Emily Kahn, Hosni Mikhael, and Nalini Vadivelu
13 Management of Acute and Chronic Drug Abuse
of Amphetamines .................................................................................... 155
Sahra Lantz-Dretnik, Michal Czernicki, and Sreekumar Kunnumpurath
14 Herbal Supplements and Abuse............................................................. 165
Karina Gritsenko, Iyabo Muse, and Amaresh Vydyanathan
15 Opioids and Substance Abuse ................................................................ 179
Matthew Verne Satterly and Magdalena Anitescu
16 The Multidisciplinary Approach to the Management
of Substance Abuse ................................................................................. 193
Andrei D. Sdrulla and Grace Chen
17 Evidence-Based Treatments for Substance Use Disorders .................. 209
David Pilkey, Howard Steinberg, and Steve Martino
18 Nursing Perspectives in Managing Patients with Substance Abuse ... 229
Larissa Galante, Cynthia French, and Kirsten B. Grace
19 The Role of the Social Worker ............................................................... 249
Janet Lucas, Anne Riffenburgh, and Bill Mejia
20 Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation in the Opioid
Addicted Patient ...................................................................................... 265
Michael N. Brown
21 Appropriate Dispensing of Prescription Medications
and Recognition of Substance Abuse:
The Pharmacist’s Perspective ................................................................ 291
Adam Marc Kaye and Alan David Kaye
22 Methadone: Uses, Abuses, and Metabolism ......................................... 301
Andrea Trescot, Natalia Murinova, and Daniel Krashin
23 Buprenorphine for Pain and Opioid Dependence ................................ 311
Sanford M. Silverman
24 Opioid-Sparing Drugs (Ketamine, Gabapentin, Pregabalin,
and Clonidine) ......................................................................................... 319
Jasmina Perinpanayagam, Mohammad Jamil Abu-Asi,
Sara Bustamante, and Sreekumar Kunnumpurath
25 Substance Abuse Recovery Groups ....................................................... 331
Anjuli Desai and Frank John English Falco
26 Relaxation Techniques ............................................................................ 337
Kareem Hubbard and Frank John English Falco
27 Acupuncture as a Treatment for Substance
Abuse in Pediatric Patients .................................................................... 349
Shu-Ming Wang
28 Neurostimulation and Drug Abuse ........................................................ 359
Maria Teresa Gudin
29 Hypnosis for Substance Abuse ............................................................... 369
Sumit Gulati, Yashwin Agnelo D’Costa, Lara Zador,
and Sreekumar Kunnumpurath
30 Postoperative Pain Control in Drug Abusing Patients ........................ 379
Clifford Gevirtz, Nalini Vadivelu, and Alan David Kaye
31 Management of the Drug Abusing Patient in the ICU ........................ 389
Ranjit Deshpande, Jhaodi Gong, Ryan Chadha, and Ala Haddadin
32 Chronic Pain Patients and Substance Abuse ........................................ 407
Rahul Rastogi, Narendren Narayanasamy, and Paul Sraow
33 Management of Acute Pain .................................................................... 429
Michael Alan Fishman and Donna-Ann M. Thomas
34 Pediatric Drug Use, Misuse, and Abuse ................................................ 445
Shu-Ming Wang
35 Pregnancy and Substance Abuse ........................................................... 453
Gulshan Doulatram, Tilak D. Raj, and Ranganathan Govindaraj
36 Substance Abuse in the Elderly ............................................................. 495
Danie Babypaul, Michal Czernicki, and Sreekumar Kunnumpurath
37 Substance Abuse Among Healthcare Professionals ............................. 503
Natacha Telusca, Kingsuk Ganguly, Chrystina Jeter,
and Jordan L. Newmark
38 Podiatric Problems and Management in Patients
with Substance Abuse ............................................................................. 515
Gabriel V. Gambardella, Chioma N. Odukwe Enu,
Brian M. Schmidt, and Peter A. Blume
39 Substance Abuse and Respiratory Disease ........................................... 537
Martin D. Knolle, Sumit Chatterji, and Thomas B. Pulimood
40 Medically Supervised Withdrawal for Opioid Dependence ................ 549
Sanford M. Silverman
41 Pain, Addiction, Depression (PAD): Assessment
of Pain and Addiction, the Neurobiology of Pain ................................. 567
Hans C. Hansen

42 Between Social Welfare and Public Health:
Substance Abuse and Co-occurring Disability ..................................... 593
Song Kim and Alan David Kaye
43 Effects of Substance Abuse on the Cardiovascular
System and Its Management .................................................................. 603
Adnan Khan Malik, Ann Marie Melookaran, Gnana S. Simon,
and Qingbing Zhu
44 The Face of Addiction ............................................................................. 619
Debra Short
45 Drug Testing and Adherence Monitoring in Substance
Abuse Patients ......................................................................................... 621
Steven Michael Lampert, Alan David Kaye, Richard D. Urman,
and Laxmaiah Manchikanti
Index ................................................................................................................. 633