A new handbook from the American Society of Addiction Medicine (ASAM), Principles of Addiction Medicine: The Essentials, provides a quick reference on virtually all addiction medicine topics. This 600-page handbook extracts and summarizes key clinical points from each chapter of Principles of Addiction Medicine, 4th Edition, and presents them in an easily readable manner. The book is an excellent reference for a wide variety of practitioners, among them psychiatrists, psychologists, nurses, social workers, internal medicine and primary care physicians, and substance abuse counselors. Further information including the table of contents and ordering information is available at: http://www.asam.org/PrinciplesEssentials.html#TOC (Publication date May 2011; paperbound edition $67.95 plus shipping and taxes; Kindle price $51.29.)