Addiction Pagliaros ’ Comprehensive Guide to Drugs and Substances of Abuse

The need for an authoritative, referenced, and up-to-date compilation of consumption trends and individual pharmacology for drugs and substances of abuse in North America cannot be overstated. It is this book’s main objective, according to the authors’ statement in the preface, and the text achieves it well. Pagliaros’ guide is designed, first, to assist general health care professionals and, second, to serve as a review and quick reference for clinicians who specialize in the treatment of patients with substance use disorders. Given the text’s emphasis on pharmacologic mechanisms, I suggest that physicians and pharmacists are the targeted readers. The 2 Canadian authors are well-known faculty at the University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta. They have published numerous articles and textbooks on the pharmacology of substance abuse, and they have taken great care to provide us with as much information from Canadian sources as possible, which is without any doubt a clear advantage of this book.