Dual Disorder Patients: Clinical and Therapeutical Aspects - Volume Two
A special issue of Sci (ISSN 2413-4155).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (20 June 2022) | Viewed by 350
Special Issue Editors
Interests: substance use disorders; psychiatric comorbidity; alcoholism; bipolar disorder; psychopharmacology
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
We are pleased to invite you to contribute to the Sci Special Issue “Dual Disorder Patients: Clinical and Therapeutical Aspects - Volume Two”. We welcome the submission of both original research and critical review articles for possible publication in the issue.
Topics of interest for this issue include:
- Predictors of substance use patterns and transition to addiction in relation to coexisting psychiatric disorders;
- Effectiveness of anticraving agents in specific dual diagnosis clinical pictures;
- Evidence of persistent psychiatric disorders induced by addictive substance use;
- Improvements in early and late attrition of dual diagnosis patients enrolled in addiction treatment programs;
- Therapies targeting psychotic symptoms of cannabis users and aggressive behavior of cannabis using patients;
- Opiate agonists and antagonists: effects of dual diagnosis and related behaviors, in a categorial or dimensional perspective.
Dr. Matteo Pacini
Dr. Angelo Giovanni Icro Maremmani
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- dual diagnosis
- methadone, buprenorphine, naltrexone, nalmefene
- craving
- treatment retention
- behavioral outcome
- polyabuse
- methamphetamine or cathinone induced disorders
- cannabis induced disorders.
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