Alcohol and Alcoholism Vol. 35, No. 2, pp. 216-217, 2000
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New Treatments for Chemical Addictions (Review of Psychiatry, Series, Vol. 17).
This multi-author volume is one of six individually published sections which make up the 1998 American Psychiatric Association Review of Psychiatry, which is now in its seventeenth volume. The addictions volume has five chapters: Nicotine Dependence and Treatment, Alcohol Dependence in Women, Opiate Dependence Treatment, The Relationship Between Substance Misuse and HIV, and Contemporary Issues in Dual Diagnosis. The editors and lead authors are all North American psychiatrists, many from Yale University School of Medicine, which is the base of the two editors.
The editors' introduction sets out the aim of the volume clearly so as to
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