Textbook of Clinical Management of Club Drugs and Novel Psychoactive Substances

Dima Abdulrahim is Programme Manager and Principal Researcher for the NEPTUNE Project and Quality Lead of the Addictions Department of Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust. She has been working in the drug treatment field for over thirty years. She is a previous Council member of the Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs. She co-authored Club Drugs and Novel Psychoactive Substances: The Clinician's Handbook (Cambridge University Press, 2020) with Owen Bowden-Jones and sits on the Editorial Board of Drugs, Habits and Social Policy (formerly Drugs and Alcohol Today). Owen Bowden-Jones is a Consultant in Addiction Psychiatry and an Honorary Professor at University College London, UK. In 2010 he founded the Club Drug Clinic, London, an innovative service offering treatment for club drugs and novel psychoactive substances. He is Chair of the Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs and national clinical adviser at the Office for Health Improvement. He is also a trustee of the Society for the Study of Addiction and a board member at the International Society for the Study of Emerging Drugs. His research interests include emerging drug harms, particularly in young people.

1. An Introduction to Club Drugs and Novel psychoactive substances; 2. Psychosocial interventions for club drugs and novel psychoactive substances; 3. Gamma-hydroxybutyrate (GHB) and gamma-butyrolactone (GBL) Drug group: depressants; 4. New Benzodiazepine (BZD) NPS; 5. Synthetic Opioids NPS (fentanyl and non-fentanyl NPS); 6. Ketamine and other NPS with dissociative effects; 7. Nitrous oxide (N2O); 8. Stimulant Club Drugs and novel psychoactive substances; 9. 'Ecstasy'- MDMA, 3,4-methylenedioxymethamphetamine), MDMA analogues and drugs with similar effects; 10 . Methamphetamine; 11. Synthetic cathinones; 12. Hallucinogenic drugs; 13. Synthetic cannabinoid receptor agonists (SCRA).