Drug Addiction and Related Clinical Problems

1. Opposing Tonically Active Endogenous Opioid System Modulating the Mesolimbic Dopamine Reward Pathway.- 2. Recent Advances in the Understanding of Membrane Opioid Receptor.- 3. Central Dopaminergic Mechanism of Alcohol and Opiate Withdrawal Syndromes.- 4. Endogenous Morphine and Codeine As Possible Physiological Ligands of ?-Opiate Receptors.- 5. Drug of Abuse Craving in Free-Choice Experimental Conditions.- 6. Methadone Maintenance. Comes of Age.- 7. Pharmacotherapy for craving.- 8. The Use of GHB in Anticraving Therapy. Preliminary Experimental Data of its Use in Alcohol and Heroin Dependence.- 9. Development of an Italian Version of the "Readiness to Change Questionnaire" for Alcoholism and Addiction.- 10. Mood Disorders in Heroin Dependence and Clinical Differences Between Heroin Addicts with and without Mood Disorders.- 11. Nature and Magnitude of Problems Associated with Psychoactive Drugs.- 12. The Street Life and Treatment Response of 105 Heroin Addicted Women.- 13. The Pharmacological Rationale for Methadone Treatment of Narcotic Addiction.- 14. Reducing Heroin Consumption During Methadone Treatment and Limitation of Post-Treatment Relapses: Two Crucial Public Health Problems.- 15. Methadone Against AIDS. The Swedish Experience.- 16. Addiction and Pregnancy: Maternal and Child Issues.- 17. Tuberculosis. The Comeback of a Killer.- 18. Lowering the Threshold: A Comparative Overview of AIDS Prevention Among Injecting Drug Users Using Outreach Technology.- 19. Pharmacological Treatment of Addiction: Normalization of Physiology and AIDS Risk Reduction.- 20. Methadone Treatment and the Epidemiology of AIDS in the European Community.- 21. Public Health in Face of Drug Addiction and AIDS.- 22. The Dark and Light Aspects of Italian Legislation on Substances ofAbuse.- 23. Methadone and Criminality. Euro-methwork Workshop.- 24. Workshop of the European Collaborating Centres in Addiction Studies (ECCAS).- Methadone Substitution Therapy and its Impact on HIV Risk Behaviors.- A Report from Denmark.- A Report from Germany.- A Report from Ireland.- A Report from Italy: Methadone Treatment in Opiate Addicts: 12 Years Experience in Italy.- The Padova Centre Report.- A Report from Spain. The Methadone Maintenance Programs in Barcelona.- A Report from Switzerland. Methadone Treatment in Switzerland.- 25. 1st European Methadone Conference. Opening Remarks.- 26. Incorporating a Methadone Maintenance Program into a Drug-free Treatment System.- 27. Heroin Dependence. Theory of Different Levels of Intervention.