Drug and Substance Abuse Among Older Adults: Identification, Analysis, and Synthesis

Author:   Louis A. Pagliaro (University of Alberta, Canada) ,  Ann Marie Pagliaro (University of Alberta, Canada)
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
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9780367445515


Pages:   574
Publication Date:   15 March 2022
Format:   Hardback
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Drug and Substance Abuse Among Older Adults provides a timely, comprehensive overview and analysis of the silent epidemic of drug and substance abuse involving elderly Americans. Combining the authors’ individual 50-plus years of formal academic and clinical experience, the book presents a critical reflective analysis and synthesis of the published research associated with older adult psychotropic drug use and abuse in the United Sates. Chapters delineate related causes and consequences and provide the reader with guidance on how to minimize and effectively deal with this significant and growing problem. Related professional reminders throughout each chapter emphasize and remind readers of important basic content and principles, while common misbeliefs regarding specific abusable psychotropics and their use by older adults are debunked and corrected. Also included are carefully developed figures and tables to supplement chapter content along with explicit guides and tools to facilitate the assessment and diagnosis of abusable psychotropic dependence or use disorder. Health and social care professionals in the U.S. will learn to assess and diagnose abusable psychotropic dependence or use disorders among older adults and to provide clients quickly and accurately with appropriate, efficacious, and empirically validated treatment.

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Author:   Louis A. Pagliaro (University of Alberta, Canada) ,  Ann Marie Pagliaro (University of Alberta, Canada)
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Weight:   0.453kg
ISBN:  

9780367445515


ISBN 10:   0367445514
Pages:   574
Publication Date:   15 March 2022
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print   Availability explained
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Louis A. Pagliaro is currently Professor Emeritus, University of Alberta, and Co-Director of the Substance Abusology and Clinical Pharmacology Research Group. He was formerly a tenured, full professor in the Department of Educational Psychology, as well as in the faculty of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences, at the University of Alberta where he taught for over 30 years. Ann Marie Pagliaro is currently Professor Emeritus, University of Alberta, and Co-Director of the Substance Abusology and Clinical Pharmacology Research Group. She was formerly a tenured, full professor in the Faculty of Nursing at the University of Alberta where she taught and supervised undergraduate and graduate students, for over 30 years.

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