Essentials of Addiction Medicine: A Practical Clinical Guide to Diagnosis, Treatment, and Recovery-Focused Care

Struggling to keep patients engaged once addiction enters the room?Essentials of Addiction Medicine hands clinicians a practical, evidence-based clinical guide to substance use disorder diagnosis, treatment, and recovery-focused care-built for the moment addiction shows up inside a hypertension visit, a pregnancy, or a post-operative pain plan. >You'll find substance-specific treatment protocols, withdrawal management, harm reduction strategies, co-occurring psychiatric care, and population-specific guidance for pregnancy, adolescents, and older adults-illustrated throughout for fast visual recall. Clinicians who've used this framework report walking into complex substance use encounters with a clear next step instead of uncertainty, because every chapter ends with a practical algorithm, not just theory. Written for physicians, nurse practitioners, PAs, residents, nurses, and behavioral health professionals, this addiction medicine reference replaces guesswork with a systematic, person-first approach grounded in current clinical evidence and DSM-5-TR criteria. If you see patients whose substance use shapes the outcome of everything else you're treating, you need a structured entry point to this literature-not another dense reference you'll never open twice.Get your copy of Essentials of Addiction Medicine today and start turning every clinical encounter into a recovery-focused one.