The Treatment of Drinking Problems

E. Jane Marshall is Consultant Psychiatrist, South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust and Senior Lecturer in the Addictions, Institute of Psychiatry, King's College London, London, UK. Keith Humphreys is Professor of Psychiatry, Stanford University, and Research Career Scientist, Department of Veterans Affairs, Palo Alto, USA. David M. Ball is Senior Lecturer and Honorary Consultant Psychiatrist, Social, Genetic and Developmental Psychiatry Centre, Institute of Psychiatry, King's College London, UK.

Preface; A note on the fifth edition; Introduction; Part I. Background to Understanding: 1. Definitions of drinking problems; 2. Alcohol as a drug; 3. Causes of drinking problems; 4. Social complications and consequences; 5. Physical complications of excessive drinking; 6. Drinking problems and psychiatric co-morbidity; 7. Alcohol and other drugs; 8. Various clinical presentations; Part II. Screening, Assessment and Treatment: 9. Introduction, settings and roles; 10. Non-specialist settings; 11. Assessment as the beginning of therapy; 12. Withdrawal states and treatment of withdrawal; 13. The basic work of treatment; 14. Specialist treatment and pharmacotherapy; 15. Alcoholics Anonymous and alternatives; 16. Spiritual and religious issues in treatment; 17. Working towards normal drinking; 18. When things go wrong and putting them right; Index.