Table of Contents

Contents VOLUME 2 Foreword

• Preface: The Antipodes ofthe Mind
• Part I: The Cocaine Issues
• Gift of the Sun God or the Third Scourge of Mankind?
• Coca Paste and Freebase: New Fashions in Cocaine Use
• The Cocaine Problems
• The Management of Cocainism
• Cocaine Anonymous
• Part II: The Marijuana Issues
• Marijuana Use Detection: The State of the Art
• Marijuana: Pulmonary Issues
• Marijuana and Learning
• Cannabis: Impact on Motivation
• Marijuana and the Public Health: An Analysis of Four Major Reports
• Marijuana and Reproductive Functions
• Cancer Chemotherapy and Vomiting: THC and Other Antiemetics
• Part III: The Alcohol Issues
• The Blood Alcohol Concentration
• Hangover
• Alcoholic Hypoglycemia
• The Oriental Syndrome
• Blackouts: “You Mean I Did That Last Night?”
• Pathological Intoxication
• The One-Vehicle Accident
• Alcohol Related Disorders: Early Identification
• How to Become an Alcoholic
• The Myth of Controlled Drinking by Alcoholics
• Alcohol and Malnutrition
• Alcohol and the American Indian
• The Aging Social Drinker
• Part IV: Other Mind-Altering Substances
• Methaqualone: A New Twist
• The Anxiolytic Agents
• Benzodiazepine Receptors in the Brain
• Caffeine
• Codeine Use and Abuse
• Paragoric
• The Rise and Fall of the Look-Alikes
• Over-the-Counter Medicines:Psychophysiologic Reactions
• The Hallucinogens
• Part V: How Drugs Change People and Society
• Coming of Age in America--With Drugs: Contemporary Adolescence
• Drug Abuse: Predisposition and Vulnerability
• Prescribing Practices: Drug Misuse and Abuse
• Substance Abuse: Initiation and Perpetuation
• Drugs in the Workplace
• The Problem of Acute Affluence: The High-Priced Athlete
• Pleasure and Pain
• Reflections on People and Drugs
• The Now People: Sketches of Lethal Drug Use
• Drugs for Pleasure: Ethical Issues
• Parent Power
• Part VI: An Assortment of Issues
• Drug Abuse: The Coming Years
• Paraphernalia
• AIDS
• Therapeutic Communities for Substance Abusers
• Opiates and Endorphins for Mental Illness
• Clonidine (Catapres): Nonopiate Detoxification
• The Chronic Intractable Benign Pain Syndrome
• Differential Diagnosis of Substance Abuse Symptoms and Signs
• A Matter of Quality Control: Manufactured Drugs of Abuse
• Index