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A number of psychosocial treatments for alcohol and other substance use disorders exist and are widely used. In this chapter, we discuss six of these psychotherapies as they are applied to alcohol, cocaine, and opioid dependence brief interventions, motivational enhancement therapy, cognitive-behavioral therapy, behavioral treatments (including contingency management and community reinforcement approaches), behavioral marital therapy, and 12-step facilitation. We also describe studies that examined the efficacy of a medication in combination with one or more of the six psychotherapies. In the second section of the chapter, we highlight research that directly studied the interaction between psychosocial and pharmacological treatments. 

Many studies have examined the efficacy of a variety of psychosocial treatments for alcohol, cocaine, and opioid use disorders, alone and in conjunction with pharmacotherapy. However, only a handful of studies have explored how these two treatment approaches may interact. More research is needed to further explore the ways in which psychosocial interventions may be used in conjunction with pharmacotherapy to optimize outcomes for both treatments. Providing encouragement for abstinence, greater treatment retention, medication adherence, and coping with medication side effects are some potential applications of psychosocial therapies. 

The abused substances covered in this chapter include nicotine, alcohol, cocaine, amphetamines, cannabis, and opioids. While many more substances can be and have been abused, these drugs are among the most popular. 

These dopaminergic reward pathways are critical for normal survival, since they provide the pleasure drives for eating, drinking and reproduction. However, this system produces similar sensations of pleasure with alcohol, cocaine, heroin, nicotine,... 

The following factors have been suggested as alternatives to consider when presented with a potential case of exposure to bicyclophosphates history of epilepsy exposure to alcohol, cocaine, lead, camphor, strychnine, and/or carbon monoxide medicinals such as phenothiazines head trauma, heatstroke encephalitis, meningitis, and tetanus. 

In the presence of alcohol, cocaine is metabolized to cocaethylene, a longer-acting compound than cocaine with a greater risk for causing death. 

Designer drugs, as well as other drugs like alcohol, cocaine, and heroin, produce their effects on the brain by altering the... 

Low-income adults smoke more than high-income adults. People with less education smoke more than those with college degrees. Habitual users of alcohol, cocaine, and heroin are more likely to be smokers too. More than 80% of alcoholics are smokers, and alcoholic drinkers are at least twice as likely to be smokers than are nondrinkers. The highest prevalence rates are seen with psychiatric patients up to 88% of schizophrenics smoke, and approximately 50% of patients with anxiety, personality disorders, and depression smoke. Forty per-... 

Non-traumatic rhabdomyolysis is often secondary to alcohol, cocaine, amphetamines, heroin, etc, and is characterized by laboratory features that reflect the release of muscle cell contents into the plasma. Early detection can prevent progression to acute renal insufficiency (211). 

MacKinnon, D. P. (1995). Review of the cftccts of the alcohol warning label. In R. R. Watson (Ed.), Drug and alcohol abuse reviews Vol. 7. Alcohol, cocaine, and accidents (pp. 131-161). Totowa, NJ Humana Press. 

Key words Gene, Alcohol, Cocaine, Opioid, Addiction, Dependence, Abuse, Drug, Therapy, Polymorphism... 

The predominant effects of serotonin are inhibitory. It enhances the action of the GABA, the major inhibitory neurotransmitter. Serotonin has an excitatory effect by increasing the release of dopamine, a neurotransmitter involved in love, sex, and feelings of well being. Reduction in serotonin activity makes people incapable of experiencing normal positive rewards. Dopamine activity is enhanced by alcohol, cocaine, amphetamine, heroin, and risk-taking behavior. 

Off-label use Certain psychiatric disorders including bipolar disorders and post-traumatic stress disorder, non-neuritic pain syndromes, restless leg syndrome, management of alcohol, cocaine and benzodiazepine withdrawal, and chorea in children. ... 

Finally, most clients who are in treatment do not remain abstinent from alcohol and other drugs. Earlier in the chapter, it was noted that nearly 57 percent of public-sector clients had more than one treatment admission. A literature review revealed that 40 percent to 60 percent of clients who were treated for dependence on alcohol, cocaine, or heroin were continually abstinent for 1 year following treatment. An additional 15 percent to 30 percent used alcohol or other drugs in a nondependent manner (this finding will be discussed in more detail later in the chapter). The best predictors of relapse were low socioeconomic status, the presence of a co-occmring mental disorder, and lack of family and social support systems. 

In the presence of alcohol, cocaine is metabolised in the liver to eoeaeth-ylene which appears to have the same stimulant effeets as eoeaine, but a longer half-life (2 hours compared with about 38 minutes for eoeaine). Animal studies suggest that this metabolite is more toxie than eoeaine. In... 

Dmgs alcohol, cocaine, and cannabinoids, e.g., WIN55,212-2 and capsaicin, immipramine, haloperidol, fluoxetine. 

May also occur with atropine, epinephrine, isoproterenol, quinidine, caffeine, alcohol, cocaine, amphetamine, and nicotine use. 

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