Drugs and Human Behavior

Designed for undergraduate courses in departments of psychology, and secondary markets include psychopharmacology, medicine, biology, social work and drug abuse counselling, this edition provides an overview of psychoative drugs. The information in this text is organized from the general to the specific, beginning with a historical perspective. The narrative then moves through drug classifications, approaches to drug tolerance, dependence and abuse, psychological and behavioural effects, pharmokinetics, machanisms of action, common side effects, and arriving finally at contemporary issues regarding drug use and abuse. There is also a concerted effort made in the text to link together the phenomena of drug tolerance, dependence and abuse, whilst offering a number of approaches for prevention and reduction of their consequences.