New book published on club drugs

Club Drug Founder Dr Owen Bowden-Jones and CNWL Researcher Dr Dima Abdulrahim have jointly published a new clinicians’ handbook on club drugs and novel psychiatric substances.

The book, which is published by Cambridge University Press, provides a concise, accessible summary of these emerging drugs by categorising the hundreds of new drugs by their predominant psychoactive effect - sedative, stimulant and hallucinogenic.

The aim is to help clinicians to manage a drug they are unfamiliar with by using their experience of other drugs with similar psychoactive properties.

Both authors draw on numerous clinical examples from their own clinical experiences to illustrate aspects of assessment and management.

Dr Abdulrahim said: “We know that this flood of new drugs has led to clinicians being uncertain of the best approaches to assessment and clinical management. We hope that this handbook will provide an invaluable introduction to this complex area.”

The book is on this link: https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/club-drugs-and-novel-psychoactive-substances/00E1CB02C03A1E18980F8F3E2209F402