Product Description: This book provides a comprehensive overview of physiological, biochemical, and genetic pathways underlying drug addiction, and resultant efforts to develop novel treatment strategies dealing with drug addiction and other CNS disorders where the neurophysiological processes overlap, such as treatment of pain...read more

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Product Description: Written for practitioners in the field, this critically acclaimed bestseller provides authoritative information focused on the investigation of drug-related deaths and practical approaches to the detection of drug abuse. Organized to provide forensic investigators and pathologists with ready access to the authoritative and comprehensive information they need, Karch’s Pathology of Drug Abuse, Fourth Edition includes― •          171 new color photos and microphotographs •          46 tables of comparative information •          2,000 new references to the literature Authored by a World-Renowned Forensic Pathologist Steven B...read more

For pathologists, pharmacologists, drug abuse specialists and toxicologists, this book covers stimulant, opiate and steroid abuse. Each section includes a detailed discussion of how the drug came to be abused, how it is manufactured in clandestine laboratories, and how it is metabolized. (view table of contents)