Edwards' Treatment of Drinking Problems

Keith Humphreys is a Professor and the Section Director for Mental Health Policy in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at Stanford University. He is also a Senior Research Career Scientist at the VA Health Services Research Center in Palo Alto and an Honorary Professor of Psychiatry at the Institute of Psychiatry, King's College London. Dr Humphreys has been extensively involved in the formation of public policy, having served as a member of the White House Commission on Drug Free Communities, the VA National Mental Health Task Force, and the National Advisory Council of the US Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration. Anne Lingford-Hughes is Professor of Addiction Biology at Imperial College London and a Consultant Psychiatrist with a particular interest in pharmacological treatments of alcohol problems and comorbidity at Central North West London NHS Foundation Trust. Professor Lingford-Hughes is past Honorary General Secretary of the British Association for Psychopharmacology. She co-developed and wrote their guidelines about the pharmacological management of substance misuse and addiction and comorbidity with psychiatric disorders. She has also contributed to NICE guidance regarding pharmacotherapy of opiate detoxification and alcohol misuse and dependence.

• A note on the sixth 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 of drinking problems; 5. Physical complications of excessive drinking; 6. Drinking problems and psychiatric disorders; 7. Alcohol and other drug problems; Part II. Treatment: Context and Content: 8. Introduction, settings and roles; 9. Case-finding and intervention in non-specialty settings; 10. Assessment of patients with drinking problems; 11. Withdrawal states and their clinical management; 12. The therapeutic relationship; 13. Specialist treatment of drinking problems; 14. Alcoholics Anonymous and other mutual-help organizations; 15. Religion, spirituality and values in the treatment of drinking problems; 16. Pursuing treatment outcomes other than abstinence; 17. Managing setbacks and challenges in the treatment of drinking problems; Epilogue; Index.