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Emergency physicians are challenged every day by patient presentations of a variety of typically abused substances. Stimulants, narcotics, sedatives, hallucinogens, as well as newer agents and commonly abused herbs, plants, and volatile substances—all of which are gaining popularity in the adolescent population. This book is a uniquely designed quick reference on commonly abused drugs and substances and their physical and clinical effects—the conditions that lead to emergency department presentations secondary to abuse and their diagnosis and management.
A color-coded "road map" feature (see "Click to view larger image" above) is included to direct you to quick-look section tabs and page numbers to find valuable and pertinent information quickly even if you aren't sure about the specific drug or category of drug ingested. An appendix provides an extensive alphabetical list of street names for abused drugs, and each chapter also contains the more common street names of those drugs and substances discussed within the chapter. No other book offers you this type of information this quickly!
Time is of the essence when you need to make a diagnosis and start treatment. This book is designed to save you time—but it doesn't stop there! It provides useful information about the origins of these substances and their impact on society. Read further into each chapter to learn more about the pharmacology and pathophysiology, clinical presentation, differential diagnosis, and emergency department management for specific stimulants, narcotics and opiates, sedative-hypnotics, herbs and plants, hallucinogens, volatile substances, and newer agents.
BOOK REVIEW — "Emergency Management of Selected Drugs of Abuse is an excellent addition to the emergency medicine literature. It is the first book on substance abuse written specifically for emergency physicians. At this time, it stands as the best available text for the emergency physician who needs to rapidly locate information on abused substances. This book will make an excellent addition to the library of any ED or to the reading collection of any emergency medicine residency." —Annals of Emergency Medicine, June 2001
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Carson R. Harris, MD, FACEP.
Dr. Harris is senior staff attending and director of toxicology education at the Regions Hospital emergency medicine residency program in St. Paul, Minnesota, and director of the clinical toxicology teaching service. He is an assistant professor in the Clinical Emergency Medicine Program at the University of Minnesota Medical School and a clinical assistant professor in the College of Pharmacy, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis. He is also a toxicology consultant for the Minnesota Poison Control system.
Dr. Harris has a bachelor's degree in biology and earned his MD degree from the University of Minnesota Medical School. He interned at Tripler Army Medical Center, Honolulu, Hawaii, while in the US Army and completed his emergency medicine residency training at Brooke Army Medical Center, San Antonio, Texas. He completed a preceptorship in medical toxicology in 1991 and is a board-certified emergency physician. Dr. Harris was called to active duty for Operation Desert Shield and Desert Storm during the Persian Gulf War and was stationed at Brooke Army Medical Center as faculty for emergency medicine. He also served during Operation Joint Endeavor in Bosnia as chief of emergency medicine services at Heidelberg, Germany. He has since retired from the US Army Reserves at the rank of lieutenant colonel.
Dr. Harris and his wife, Maren, a marriage and family therapist, reside in Eagan, Minnesota, and have three children, a son, Drew, and daughters, Taylor and Whitney.
