Books from National Academies Press

  • Preventing HIV Infection Among Injecting Drug Users in High-Risk Countries: An Assessment of the Evidence
    Preventing HIV Infection Among Injecting Drug Users in High-Risk Countries: An Assessment of the Evidence
    By Institute of Medicine, Board on Global Health, Committee on the Prevention of HIV Infection Among Injecting Drug Users in High-Risk Countries

    Drug and Alcohol Dependence. 37: 15–21. Grella CE, Anglin MD, Annon JJ. 1996. HIV risk behaviors among women in methadone maintenance treatment. Substance Use and Misuse. 31(3):277–301. Grella CE, Anglin MD, Wugalter SE. 1997.

  • Broadening the Base of Treatment for Alcohol Problems
    Broadening the Base of Treatment for Alcohol Problems
    By Institute of Medicine, Committee on Treatment of Alcohol Problems

    " This book is the most comprehensive examination of alcohol treatment to date.

  • Relationships Among the Brain, the Digestive System, and Eating Behavior: Workshop Summary
    Relationships Among the Brain, the Digestive System, and Eating Behavior: Workshop Summary
    By Institute of Medicine, Food and Nutrition Board, Food Forum

    Whether neuroimaging evidence reveals anything about eating behaviors, and “food addiction” in particular, is open to debate in Hisham Ziauddeen's opinion. Ziauddeen called attention to key assumptions underlying neuroimaging studies of ...

  • The Development of Medications for the Treatment of Opiate and Cocaine Addictions: Issues for the Government and Private Sector
    The Development of Medications for the Treatment of Opiate and Cocaine Addictions: Issues for the Government and Private Sector
    By Institute of Medicine, Committee to Study Medication Development and Research at the National Institute on Drug Abuse

    Issues for the Government and Private Sector Committee to Study Medication Development and Research at the National ... Figure 2.1 presents the schematic model of drug dependence developed by the World Health Organization (WHO), ...

  • Marijuana As Medicine?: The Science Beyond the Controversy
    Marijuana As Medicine?: The Science Beyond the Controversy
    By Institute of Medicine, Janet Joy, Alison Mack

    The Science Beyond the Controversy Institute of Medicine, Janet Joy, Alison Mack. become dependent on illicit drugs than are women. The risk of drug dependence for white Americans is approximately double that for African Americans.

  • Treating Drug Problems: Volume 1
    Treating Drug Problems: Volume 1

    Volume 1 Institute of Medicine, Committee for the Substance Abuse Coverage Study Henrick J. Harwood, ... Pp. 271–277 in L.S. Harris, ed., Problems of Drug Dependence, 1985: Proceedings of the 47th Annual Scientific Meeting .

  • Gulf War and Health: Volume 6: Physiologic, Psychologic, and Psychosocial Effects of Deployment-Related Stress
    Gulf War and Health: Volume 6: Physiologic, Psychologic, and Psychosocial Effects of Deployment-Related Stress
    By Institute of Medicine, Board on Population Health and Public Health Practice, Committee on Gulf War and Health: Physiologic

    The CIDI was administered in Australia as part of a two-phase study of 1381 Gulf War veterans and 1377 nondeployed controls ... The prevalence of alcohol and drug abuse or dependence before the Gulf War was similar in the deployed and ...

  • The Mental Health and Substance Use Workforce for Older Adults: In Whose Hands?
    The Mental Health and Substance Use Workforce for Older Adults: In Whose Hands?
    By Institute of Medicine, Board on Health Care Services, Committee on the Mental Health Workforce for Geriatric Populations

    ... and • 4.4 percent were found to have substance use disorders, including 4 percent with alcohol dependence or abuse and 0.5 percent with drug dependence or abuse. The findings from these three studies are not precisely comparable ...

  • Dispelling the Myths About Addiction: Strategies to Increase Understanding and Strengthen Research
    Dispelling the Myths About Addiction: Strategies to Increase Understanding and Strengthen Research
    By Institute of Medicine, Committee to Identify Strategies to Raise the Profile of Substance Abuse and Alcoholism Research

    The Development of Medications for the Treatment of Opiate and Cocaine Addictions. ... Pathways of Addiction: Opportunities in Drug Abuse Research . ... A population-based twin study of alcoholism in women.

  • Bridging the Gap Between Practice and Research: Forging Partnerships with Community-Based Drug and Alcohol Treatment
    Bridging the Gap Between Practice and Research: Forging Partnerships with Community-Based Drug and Alcohol Treatment
    By Institute of Medicine, Committee on Community-Based Drug Treatment

    Forging Partnerships with Community-Based Drug and Alcohol Treatment Institute of Medicine, Committee on ... the National Institute on Drug Abuse aimed at developing useful medications for the treatment of substance dependent persons.

  • Fetal Alcohol Syndrome: Diagnosis, Epidemiology, Prevention, and Treatment
    Fetal Alcohol Syndrome: Diagnosis, Epidemiology, Prevention, and Treatment
    By Institute of Medicine, Committee to Study Fetal Alcohol Syndrome

    Diagnosis, Epidemiology, Prevention, and Treatment Institute of Medicine, Committee to Study Fetal Alcohol Syndrome Frederick C. Battaglia, ... Finkelstein N. Treatment programming for alcohol and drug-dependent pregnant women.

  • HIV and Disability: Updating the Social Security Listings
    HIV and Disability: Updating the Social Security Listings
    By Institute of Medicine, Board on the Health of Select Populations, Committee on Social Security HIV Disability Criteria

    See Disability data Data Collection on Adverse Events of Anti- HIV Drugs Study, 78 Death certificates, ... 8, 66–67 Drug dependence, with HIV, 35 “Drug holiday,” 117–118, 134 Drug resistance, 65 Dual X-ray absorptiometry (DEXA), 72 ...

  • Managing Managed Care: Quality Improvement in Behavioral Health
    Managing Managed Care: Quality Improvement in Behavioral Health
    By Institute of Medicine, Committee on Quality Assurance and Accreditation Guidelines for Managed Behavioral Health Care

    service factors as predictors of outcome from substance abuse treatments. ... In the field of rehabilitation from alcohol dependence, several important studies have examined the role of treatment setting, generally showing that the ...

  • Reducing Underage Drinking: A Collective Responsibility
    Reducing Underage Drinking: A Collective Responsibility
    By Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education, Institute of Medicine, National Research Council

    Journal of Studies on Alcohol (Suppl. 14), 71-81. Stewart, D.G., and Brown, S.A. (1995). Withdrawal and dependency symptoms among adolescent alcohol and drug abusers. Addiction, 90,627-635. Strunin, L., and Hingson, R. (1992).

  • AIDS and Behavior: An Integrated Approach
    AIDS and Behavior: An Integrated Approach
    By Institute of Medicine, Committee on Substance Abuse and Mental Health Issues in AIDS Research

    The addiction syndrome consists of physical dependence, psychic dependence, and tolerance (Koob and Bloom, 1988). ... Recent studies on the cellular and molecular basis of dependence and tolerance suggest that the processes are separate ...

  • Caffeine for the Sustainment of Mental Task Performance: Formulations for Military Operations
    Caffeine for the Sustainment of Mental Task Performance: Formulations for Military Operations
    By Institute of Medicine, Food and Nutrition Board, Committee on Military Nutrition Research

    As in previous studies, modafinil did not prevent sleep if sleep opportunities were available. Caldwell and coworkers (1999) ... Modafinil has been used as long as 3 years in the treatment of narcolepsy without signs of drug dependence.

  • Taking Action to Reduce Tobacco Use
    Taking Action to Reduce Tobacco Use
    By Division on Earth and Life Studies, Commission on Life Sciences, Institute of Medicine and National Research Council

    Taking Action to Reduce Tobacco Use

  • Suicide Prevention and Intervention: Summary of a Workshop
    Suicide Prevention and Intervention: Summary of a Workshop
    By Institute of Medicine, Board on Neuroscience and Behavioral Health, Committee on Pathophysiology and Prevention of Adolescent and Adult Suicide

    A Case Study. Dr. Brown described a study designed to prevent aggression involving approximately 1000 children in ... Second, “the onset of [substance] dependence and abuse actually occurred most often after the first suicide attempt.

  • Fetal Alcohol Syndrome: Diagnosis, Epidemiology, Prevention, and Treatment
    Fetal Alcohol Syndrome: Diagnosis, Epidemiology, Prevention, and Treatment
    By Institute of Medicine, Committee to Study Fetal Alcohol Syndrome

    This volume will be of special interest to physicians, nurses, mental health practitioners, school and public health officials, policymakers, researchers, educators, and anyone else involved in serving families and children, especially in ...

  • Preventing HIV Transmission: The Role of Sterile Needles and Bleach
    Preventing HIV Transmission: The Role of Sterile Needles and Bleach
    By Institute of Medicine, National Research Council and Institute of Medicine, Panel on Needle Exchange and Bleach Distribution Programs

    These studies are significant because their results appear to conflict with the findings of the body of literature ... T. Santantonio, N. Luchena, and O. Schiraldi 1985 Rapid spread of HTLV-III infection among drug addicts in Italy.