Table of Contents:
  • Clinical pharmacology and clinical epidemiology of psychoactive substances
  • Etiology of psychoactive substance use disorders
  • Initiation, progression, and maintenance of psychoactive substance use disorders
  • Course/natural history of psychoactive substance use disorders
  • Prevention, early intervention, and harm reduction
  • Screening and assessment of psychoactive substance use
  • Diagnosis and comorbidity
  • Treatment I: models and approaches
  • Treatment II: planning, implementing, and managing treatment and the course of recovery
  • Issues in specific populations
  • Legal and ethical issues.