Reviews
"Professionals should scrutinize this volume as a resource for patients, families, and friends. This lucid guide for a lay audience covers basic principles of addiction, reviews various classes of drugs, and presents a comprehensive guide to treatment. Included are chapters on dual diagnosis and adolescent addiction."- Bulletin of the Menninger Clinic, "This contemporary book is a major advance in the understanding of the impact of drugs and alcohol on the individual, family and society. The author's adept writing style illuminates fundamental facts about drug and alcohol addictions as independent disorders. His broad knowledge reveals the key essentials of diagnosis and treatment of addictive disorders. The overall format of the book provides a practical guide to learning how one can find or deliver help for an addiction problem. The experienced professional (psychiatrist, psychologist, social worker, counselor), family member or the addict can benefit from the comprehensive and indepth discussions of the recovery process. I have read the book and highly recommend it to anyone for immediate reading!"- Norman S. Miller, M.D., Associate Professor of Psychiatry, Chief, Section for Addiction Programs, Department of Psychiatry, The University of Illinois at Chicago, "The book includes a comprehensive discussion of the various classes of drugs, an overview of substance-related disorders, and a clear and useful description of the processes of treatment and recovery. Landry's style combines liveliness and scholarship, and he provides professional literature references for each chapter."- American Journal of Psychiatry, "If every nurse, physician, pharmacist, social worker, and dentist understood and applied some of the principles contained in Mim Landry's Understanding Drugs of Abuse: The Processes of Addiction, Treatment and Recovery , then the clinical care of addicted persons in the United States would be greatly improved. This book is a superbly organized, clearly written, and comprehensively referenced review of the pharmacology of psychoactive drugs and the process of recovery from drug addiction.... I plan to make this book required reading for our medical students, psychiatric residents, and interprofessional addiction fellows."- David R. McDuff, M.D., Associate Professor of Psychiatry, Director, Interprofessional Drug & Alcohol Program, University of Maryland at Baltimore, Professionals should scrutinize this volume as a resource for patients, families, and friends. This lucid guide for a lay audience covers basic principles of addiction, reviews various classes of drugs, and presents a comprehensive guide to treatment. Included are chapters on dual diagnosis and adolescent addiction.
