Author: Alexander Genrikhovich Goffman, Doctor of Medical Sciences, Professor, Head of the Department of Mental Disorders Complicated by Pathological Addictions, Moscow Research Institute of Psychiatry - a branch of the Federal State Budgetary Institution Federal Medical Research Center for Psychiatry and Addiction named after. V.P. Serbsky" of the Ministry of Health of the Russian Federation.

The book consists of three sections devoted to chronic alcoholism, alcoholic psychosis and drug addiction. Each section includes information about the epidemiology, etiology, and pathogenesis of the disease. The author pays special attention to the clinical picture and differential diagnosis of the described diseases and disorders. Treatment recommendations are based on data from domestic specialists and foreign authors, and the author especially emphasizes the need to combine drug therapy and psychotherapy to achieve long-term remission of diseases. The work is based on the author's many years of experience as the head of the department of mental disorders complicated by pathological types of addiction at the Moscow Research Institute of Psychiatry of the Ministry of Health of Russia. For psychiatrists, narcologists, therapists, resuscitators, psychologists, university students.