Drugs and Human Behavior Biopsychosocial Aspects of Psychotropic Substances Use

This book presents the main concepts and tools for the adoption of a biopsychosocial approach to psychotropic substances use and abuse management, prevention and treatment. It aims to provide resources for the design and implementation of health strategies and public policies to deal with psychotropic substances use in a way that fully recognizes the complex articulations between its biological, psychological and social aspects, taking these three dimensions into account to develop both health and social care policies and strategies aimed at psychotropic substance users.

The book is organized in five parts. Part one presents a historical overview of psychotropic substances use throughout human history and introduces key concepts to understand the phenomenon from a biopsychosocial perspective. The next three parts approach psychotropic substances use from one of the interrelated dimensions of the biopsychosocial perspective: part two focuses on the neurobiological aspects; part three, on the psychological aspects; and part four, on the social aspects and its implications for public policy design. Finally, a fifth part is dedicated to special topics related to psychotropic substances use.

Drugs and Human Behavior: Biopsychosocial Aspects of Psychotropic Substances Use is a guide to public agents, health professionals and social workers interested in adopting the biopsychosocial perspective to develop and implement both health and social care strategies and policies based on an interdisciplinary approach and aimed at dealing with psychotropic substance users in a more humanized way.

1.Humanity and the Use of Substances: A Historical Overview.- 2.Drug Use and Substance Use Disorders in Brazil and the World: Epidemiological Data.- 3.Anthropological Studies in Drug Use Contexts: An Introduction to Theoretical, Methodological and Ethical Aspects.- 4.Neuroanthropology of Drugs: Relations Between the Brain, Social Context and Use of Psychoactive Substances.- 5.Substance Use Among Older Adults: Epidemiological Aspects, Associated Variables and Organic Risks.- 6.Genetic Aspects of Substance Use Disorders.- 7.Neuroscience, Epigenetics and Psychotropic Substances.- 8.Pharmacology of Drugs of Abuse: Pharmacokinetics and Pharmacodynamics of Psychotropic Compounds.- 9.Impacts of Drug (Ab)Use on the Development of the Human Central Nervous System.- 10.Effects of Substance Use on Neural Development.- 11.Neuropsychological and Behavioral Aspects of Drug Use and Abuse: Theory, Research, and Intervention.- 12.Psychological Evaluation in Users of Psychoactive Substances: the psychodiagnosis process.- 13.Evidence-Based Psychotherapy for Substance Use Disorder.- 14.Substance Use Disorders and Psychiatric Multimorbidity.- 15.Behavioral Pharmacology: Contributions to Understanding Substance Use Disorders.- 16.Disorders Due to Substance Use in Analytical-Behavioral Clinical: Theory and Practice Observed in a Clinical Case.- 17.Psychological Trauma: Biological and Psychosocial Aspects of Substance Use Disorders.- 18.Motivational Interviewing in the Treatment of Substance Dependents: Clinical Fundamentals for Increased Adherence to treatment.- 19.Assessment and Intervention in Social and Coping Skills for Alcohol and Other Drug Users.- 20.Psychoeducation in the Treatment of Smoking and Alcohol Use Disorder.- 21.Mindfulness for the Treatment of Substance Use Disorders.- 22.Drug Use and Trafficking and the Criminal Liability of Court-Involved Youth.- 23.Gender, Alcohol Dependence and Public Policies.- 24.The Psychosocial Care Network as Organizer of Public Policy in the Care of People in Harmful Use of Alcohol and Other Drugs.- 25.Health services and the care network for people who have problems arising from drug use and the role of professionals in health care.- 26.Communities That Care (CTC): Community Prevention Interventions.- 27.Circles of Culture as a Possible Tool for Community Approach to the Phenomenon of Alcohol and Other Drugs Use.- 28.Harm Reduction in the Prevention of Risk Use and Drug Dependence at School.- 29.Prevention and School: Possible Paths in Drug Education.- 30.From Biopolitics to Bioethics: From Vulnerability to Autonomy of Drug Users.- 31.Sociocultural Aspects of the Use of Psychoactive Substances.- 32.Digital games, shopping, sex, and other addictions: neuropsychological and behavioral correlates.- 33.The biopsychosocial impact of abusive use of digital media.- 34.History of Violence and Emotional Regulation as Risk Factors for Substance Use Disorders Among Women.- 35.Therapeutic Use of Hallucinogens.- 36.Medicinal Use of Cannabis: Evidence and Therapeutic Implications.- 37.Drug Use and Suicidal Behavior at Work.- 38.Grief experience and substance misuse: an integrative review.