NIDA Research Monograph, Number 15 [Printed in 1977]
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Table of Contents
FOREWORD-----v
PREFACE-----vii
CONTRIBUTORS-----x
INTRODUCTION-----1
Chapter 1
Inhalant Abuse: An Overview of the Problem-----2
Sidney Cohen
SOCIOCULTURAL-EPIDEMIOLOGICAL ASPECTS-----13
Chapter 2
Notes on the Epidemiology of Inhalants-----14
Eleanor Carroll
CLINICAL EVALUATION-----29
Chapter 3
Clinical Evaluation of Psychological Factors-----30
Maurice Korman
Chapter 4
Medical Evaluation of Inhalant Abusers-----54
Eric G. Comstock and Betsy S. Comstock
Chapter 5
Specific Neurological Evaluation of Inhalant Abusers: Clinical and Laboratory-----81
Leon Prockop
PRECLINICAL: PHARMACOLOGY AND TOXICOLOGY-----97
Chapter 6
Introduction-----98
Daniel Couri
Chapter 7
Abuse of Inhalation Anesthetics-----102
Maynard B. Chenoweth
Chapter 8
Toxicology of Alcohols, Ketones, and EstersÑInhalation-----112
Daniel Couri and Joseph P. Nachtman
Chapter 9
Review of the Aliphatic and Aromatic Hydrocarbons-----124
James V. Bruckner and Richard G. Peterson
Chapter 10
Preclinical Pharmacology and 'I'oxicology of Halogenated Solvents and Propellants-----164
Domingo M. Aviado
Chapter 11
Nervous System Damage From Mixed Organic Solvents-----186
Leon D. Prockop and Daniel Couri
PRECLINICAL BEHAVIORAL DYSFUNCTIONS-----199
Chapter 12
Preclinical Behavioral Toxicology of Inhalant Solvents-----200
Robert E. Bowman
SUMMARY-----225
Chapter 13
Approaches to the Problem-----226
Charles W. Sharp
List of Monographs-----346
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