| 书目名称 | Management of the Addicted Patient in Primary Care | | 编辑 | Heidi Allespach Pomm,Raymond M. Pomm | | 视频video | | | 概述 | One of the only books available on the subject.Logically organized into easily accessible sections.Emphasizes the knowledge and skills needed to treat addiction in an office-based primary care setting | | 图书封面 |  | | 描述 | Tobacco, alcohol, illicit drugs, and secondhand exposure are the nation’s leading health problems. These acquired problems cause more than half of all deaths per year. First use, as well as some subsequent use, may be voluntary, but after loss of control, continued use is to be expected in an addict. So, prevention is the treatment of choice and also the treatment with the greatest ef? cacy. When prevention fails, early intervention and prompt treatment are critical; oth- wise, abuse becomes dependence and with it comes a chronic life-long disease without a speci? c cure. This places a great deal of responsibility on the already overburdened primary care physicians, who must identify a disease fraught with denial and whose patients are generally the last ones to know and accept the fact that they are hopelessly addicted and need help. Physician education and competency make early diagnosis more likely, but most practicing phy- cians do not have addiction education or treatment training as part of their undergraduate medical education. Among physicians, tobacco competency has improved, and a smoking history is now a part of almost every new patient assessment. A patient’s attempts t | | 出版日期 | Book 2007 | | 关键词 | Addiction; Alcohol; Assessment; Drug; Encounter; Intervention; Management; Motivation; Substance; diagnosis; g | | 版次 | 1 | | doi | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-71885-9 | | isbn_softcover | 978-0-387-35961-8 | | isbn_ebook | 978-0-387-71885-9 | | copyright | Springer-Verlag New York 2007 |
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