The Praeger international collection on addictions / edited by Angela Browne-Miller.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

volume 1. FACES OF ADDICTION, THEN AND NOW: PART I: PERSPECTIVES: Addiction as a public health issue / Elaine R. Feeney -- Cross-cultural issues in substance addiction research including Black Americans and Latinos / Julia F. Hastings -- Race, ethnicity, and early U.S. drug policy / Sean R. Hogan - Gender inequalities and inequities among women with substance abuse problems / Martha Romero Mendoza -- Ethical theory and addiction / Ann N. Dapice -- The religious and theological roots of Alcoholics Anonymous / Rev. Linda Mercadante -- Adolescent drug sellers and distributors / Jemel P. Aguilar -- PART II: DIMENSIONS: Historical aspects of alcohol use in India: role of culture and gender / Meera Vaswani, Atul Ambekar, and Ramadeep Pattanayak -- Alcohol and drug abuse in Malaysia / See Ching Mey and Cecilia A. Essau -- Alcohol use and binge drinking in Cyprus / Xenia Bokszczanin, Cecilia A. Essau, and Jean O'Callaghan -- Alcohol consumption and binge drinking in the United Kingdom / Cecilia A. Essau, Changiz Mohiyeddini, and Diane Bray -- Alcohol use and abuse in Germany / Changiz Mohiyeddini, Cecilia A. Essau, and Regina Pauli -- From British India to the Taliban: lessons from the history of the heroin market / Kathryn Meyer -- PART III: ASPECTS: Youth tobacco use: the health effects, trends in smoking rates, and reasons why kids use tobacco / Clete Snell -- Brewing trouble: some employment implications of regular malt liquor beer consumption / Va Nee L. Van Vleck and Thomas K. Greenfield -- The roads to H: the emergence of the American heroin complex, 1898-1956 / David T. Courtwright -- Methadone: the drug, the treatment, the controversy / Herbert D. Kleber -- Prevalence of use and manufacture of methamphetamine in the United States--is the sky falling or is it not really a problem? / Herbert C. Covey -- Interaction between methamphetamine use and HIV infection / Mary F. Holley.

volume 2. PSYCHOBIOLOGICAL PROFILES: PART I: ISSUES: Addiction and health promotion / Kathleen Bradbury-Golas -- Becoming a problematic consumer of narcotics / Ted Goldberg -- Adaptation and addiction / Ann N. Dapice -- Co-occurring trauma and substance use disorders with criminal offenders / Scott E. McClure -- The role of allergies in addictions and mental illness / Joan Mathews-Larson and Mark K. Mathews -- PART II: BODIES: Caffeine: pharmacology and effects of the world's most popular drug / Kyle M. Clayton and Paula K. Lundberg-Love -- Marijuana withdrawal: a survey of symptoms / Dirk Hanson -- Marijuana interaction with methamphetamine addiction / Mary F. Holley -- What is methamphetamine and how and why is it used? / Herbert C. Covey -- The short- and long-term medical effects of methamphetamine on children and adults / Kathryn M. Wells -- Vapors may be dangerous if inhaled: an overview of inhalants and their abuse / Jace Waguspack and Paula K. Lundberg-Love -- The effects and abuse potential of GHB: a pervasive "Club Drug" / Bethany L. Waits and Paula K. Lundberg-Love -- HIV and addiction from an African perspective: Making the link / Mary Theresa Webb and Donald Omonge -- Drug abuse-related HIV/AIDS epidemic in India: situation and responses / Atul Ambekar and Meera Vaswani -- PART III: PSYCHOBIOLOGIES: Alcohol abuse: impact on vital brain functions and societal implications / Mary Theresa Webb -- Addiction and cognitive control / Vicki W. Chanon and Charlotte A. Boettiger -- Schizophrenia and substance misuse / Giuseppe Carra and Sonia Johnson -- Neural basis for methamphetamine addiction--rethinking the definition of dependence / Mary F. Holley -- Neurobiological mechanisms and cognitive components of addiction / Jorge Juarez and Olga Inozemtseva -- Fetal, neonatal, and early childhood effects of prenatal methamphetamine exposure / Mary F. Holley -- Endocannabinoid hypothese of drug addiction / Emmanuel S. Onaivi -- Regulation of u-Opioid receptor desensitization in sensory neurons / Cui-Wei Xie.

volume 3. CHARACTERISTICS AND TREATMENT PERSPECTIVES: PART I: PARADIGMS: The social construction of drug policy and its impact on substance abuse treatment philosophies in the United States / Sean R. Hogan -- The philosophy of denial in alcohol studies: implications for research / Lorraine T. Midanik -- The spirituality of recovery and the twelve steps of Alcohol Anonymous / Rev. Robert Davis Hughes -- Addictions and free will: A structured exploration of the boundaries of personal and societal responsibility / Julian G. Martins and Basant K. Puri -- Religiosity as protective against addictions in adolescents / Patrick McNamara and James Burns -- Analysis of intervention, treatment, policy, and law that contradict ethical criteria / Ann N. Dapice -- PART II: MODELS: Family issues in the field of addiction treatment / Giuseppe Carra, Massimo Clerici, Flavio Poldrugo and Nady el-Guebaly -- Codependence from a family systems perspective / Mary Theresa Webb and Ann Fabean -- Best practices for dual diagnosis treatment and program development: co-occurring mental illness and substance disorders in various combinations / Kathleen Sciacca -- Cranial electrotherapy stimulation in the treatment of addictions / Ray B. Smith -- An analysis of service providers' treatment model choices for cocaine-using clients: a case study / Maria Dinis -- Translating efficacy to effectiveness in opioid dependence treatment / Van L. King, Michael Kidorf, Kenneth B. Stoller, Karin J. Neufeld, Jessica Peirce and Robert K. Brooner -- Shamanistic harm-reduction practices / Michael Winkelman -- PART III: PRACTICES: Therapeutic approaches, beliefs, and perceptions of providers when treating alcohol- or drug-using clients: selecting best practices / Maria Dinis, Joseph R. Merighi and Kelly Anders -- Brief telephone-based interventions for clients with alcohol and other drug abuse problems / Thomas Beers, Melinda Hohman, Katharine Slack, Daniela Sisneros and Susan I. Woodruff -- Screening and brief intervention for alcoholics / Ramadugu Shashikumar -- Service profiles: provider choices for treatment of alcohol- and cocaine-using clients / Maria Dinis, Lyndsay Ammon, and Kelly Anders -- An innovative approach to prison-based substance use treatment: the implementation of inmate peer mentor programs / Jana Cook, Scott E. McClure, Igor Koutsenok, and Scot Lord -- Advances in corrections-based treatment: building the addiction treatment workforce / Igor Koutsenok and Scott McClure -- Sacred medicines for harm reduction and substance abuse rehabilitation /Michael Winkelman.

volume 4. BEHAVIORAL ADDICTIONS FROM CONCEPT TO COMPULSION: COMPULSIONS: Work addictions: causes, consequences, and choices / Ronald J. Burke -- Addiction to television: with commentary on dependence on video games and the Internet / Robert W. Kubey -- Excessive buying as a genuine addictive behavior / Paul Rose and Dan J. Segrist -- Compulsive buying disorder / Mamta Sood and Meera Vaswani -- Association with criminality of habit and impulse-control disorders / Ian H. Treasaden and Basant K. Puri -- Troubled IPR addiction: habitual attraction, abuse, and violence in intimate partner relationships / Angela Browne-Miller -- PART II: EATING AS A SPECIAL ISSUE: Craving pizza? This is your brain on drugs: eating disorders as addiction / Amanda Ruiz, Hugo Barrera and Norman Jackson -- PART III: PORNOGRAPHY, INTERNET, GAMING, AND GAMBLING: Addiction to pornography: its psychological and behavioral implications / Robert W. Kubey -- Assessment and treatment of Internet addiction / Kimberly S. Young -- Gambling addictions / Mark Griffiths -- Youth gambling problems: an international perspective / Isabelle D. Lussier, Jeffrey L. Derevensky and Rina Gupta -- Macau: China's entry into the world of gambling / Richard A. McGowan -- Native American gambling: economic development or dependence? / Richard A. McGowan -- The current climate of gambling in the United States / Richard A. McGowan -- Online gaming addictions: symptoms, risk factors, and treatment / Kimberly S. Young -- Youth gambling prevention and resilience education: a harm reduction approach / Isabelle D. Lussier, Jeffrey L. Derevensky and Rina Gupta.