Handbook on Drug and Alcohol Abuse

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A Handbook on Drug and Alcohol Abuse: The Biomedical Aspects
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Handbook on Drug and Alcohol Abuse (1975 earliest edition)
Author Gail Winger
Frederick G. Hofmann
James H. Woods
Publisher Oxford University Press
Publication date
1992
Pages208
ISBN 9780199727407

A Handbook on Drug and Alcohol Abuse: The Biomedical Aspects by Gail Winger, Frederick G. Hofmann, and James H. Woods was published in New York by Oxford University Press in 1992. A 4th edition, updated with a chapter on "Club Drugs", was published in 2004. [1]

Reception

The book received a mixed reception from medical journals. [2] [3]

An earlier version was published in 1975 by Frederick Hofmann and Adele Hofmann as Handbook on Drug and Alcohol Abuse. [4]

References

  1. Solomon, Gary (2004). "An updated handbook on abused substances". PsycCRITIQUES. 49. doi:10.1037/040869.
  2. Fong, Timothy (2005). "A Handbook on Drug and Alcohol Abuse: The Biomedical Aspects (4th ed.)". American Journal of Psychiatry. American Psychiatric Association. Archived from the original on 11 June 2008.
  3. Heckman, Carolyn (2005). "Review of Handbook on Drug and Alcohol Abuse: The Biomedical Aspects (4th edn)". Psychological Medicine. 35 (4): 598–599. doi:10.1017/S0033291705244690. S2CID   145064029.
  4. Hofmann, Frederick G.; Hofmann, Adele D. (1975). Handbook on Drug and Alcohol Abuse: The Biomedical Aspects. New York: Oxford University Press. ISBN   9780195019223. OCLC   1272655.