Novel Pharmacological Interventions for Alcoholism [Hardcover]

Claudio A. Naranjo (Editor), Edward M. Sellers (Editor)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 0387977414 | ISBN-13: 978-0387977416 | Publication Date: December 18, 1991 | Edition: 1

Novel Pharmacological Interventions for Alcoholism identifies priorities for focusing alcoholism and addiction research efforts during the coming years. A number of important issues concerning methodology, mechanisms, clinical evaluation, and pharmaceutical aspects are discussed. This book is also a plea for a greater degree of collaboration among academics, pharmaceutical physicians and scientists, and drug regulators; it demonstrates that progress in understanding and fighting addiction and alcoholism is possible in the foreseeable future.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 378 pages
• Publisher: Springer; 1 edition (December 18, 1991)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0387977414
• ISBN-13: 978-0387977416
• Product Dimensions: 9 x 6 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.4 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #8,683,954 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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4.0 out of 5 stars an enlightening reading, May 10, 2000

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This review is from: Novel Pharmacological Interventions for Alcoholism (Hardcover)

The most interesting feature of this book is Claudio Naranjo's proposal to use harmaline in order to treat alcoholism. As it is usual with this author and renowned psychotherapist, the style is very clear, but at the same time substantial. I would call it a compassionate lucidity. Naranjo's approach goes against the grain insofar as the "establishment" consensus (or what is instilled in most people anyway) is that "every drug is bad". However in this case we have the quite novel idea (as the title of the book indicates) that a drug, in this case a hallucinogen, can be used to actually wean someone from dependency to another drug.