Addiction Psychiatric Medicine: A Comprehensive Board Review

Description of Addiction Psychiatric Medicine: A Comprehensive Board Review

Easy to read and use, Addiction Psychiatric Medicine: A Comprehensive Board Review provides a systematic and comprehensive review of all diseases and disorders frequently tested on addiction psychiatry and addiction medicine board examinations. This high-yield manual is divided into two sections: the first section contains short chapters covering important topics in addiction medicine and psychiatry, including alcohol, sedatives, opioids, tobacco, cannabis, and stimulants; the second section includes 300 multiple choice questions and detailed answer explanations. This learning tool is essential for exam study in addiction psychiatry or addiction medicine and an excellent resource for interacting with patients with substance abuse disorders.

• Divides questions into six 50-question blocks to resemble the board exam format.
• Presents information on clinical concepts, etiologies of diseases, treatments, and preventive measures in a format that’s easy to remember and apply, with tables and clinical points.
• Includes commonly missed concepts on exams for addiction psychiatry and addiction medicine to help users achieve optimal sores.
• Offers quick access to high-yield content critical for success on board exams, clinical clerkships, and medical practice.

About the Author

Dr. Colon-Rivera has board certifications in General, Adolescent, Addiction Medicine, and Addiction psychiatry. He is currently an attending physician at the UPMC Behavioral Health Network and Telepsychiatry Division and the Medical Director of the Asociación Puertorriqueños en Marcha, Inc Behavioral Health Program (APM), a non-profit organization dedicated to improving communities’ quality of life through direct behavior and substance use disorder services in the Philadelphia region.

Elie G. Aoun, M.D., is a psychiatrist in general, addiction and forensic practice in New York, on faculty at NYU as an emergency psychiatrist and a PGY7 forensic psychiatry research fellow at Columbia University. He serves as the vice chair of the American Psychiatric Association Council on Addiction Psychiatry.

Dr. Leila M. Vaezazizi, M.D. is an addiction psychiatrist at the Manhattan Veterans Affairs Medical Center and faculty member at New York University School of Medicine. She is a graduate of Harvard Medical School, completed her residency training at New York University and addiction psychiatry clinical and research fellowship at Columbia University.

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