Author Mark S. Gold presents the latest medical information on nicotine and tobacco's neurobiological, physiological, and psychological effects. This timely monograph also discusses the latest diagnostic and treatment programs as well as model programs for use by practitioners which were developed by the National Cancer Institute and other eminent organizations. The author also includes a comprehensive history of tobacco use.
Format: Paperback / softback
CONTRIBUTORS: Mark S. Gold
EAN: 9781461357483
COUNTRY: United States
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WEIGHT: 295 g
HEIGHT: 216 cm
PUBLISHED BY: Springer-Verlag New York Inc.
DATE PUBLISHED: 2012-11-12
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GENRE: MEDICAL / Epidemiology, MEDICAL / Public Health, MEDICAL / Psychiatry / General
WIDTH: 140 cm
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Book Themes:
Public health and preventive medicine, Epidemiology and Medical statistics, Psychiatry
`Mark S. Gold, MD, the most prolific and brilliant of the addiction experts writing today, has devoted the fourth volume of his impressive books in the Drugs of Abuse series to tobacco. Here, in one small, comprehensive, and readable book is an authoritative treatment of topics ranging from the history of tobacco in the US economy to the effects of tobacco use on the mind and the body....This book provides valuable information that every physician can use.' JAMA
