1st Edition

The Addictive Behaviors

By Howard J Shaffer, Barry Stimmel Copyright 1984
182 Pages
by Routledge

182 Pages
by Routledge

Thoroughly examines the natural history and social etiology of addictive behaviors.

Contents EDITORIAL: The Natural History and Social Ecology of Addictive Behaviors
  • A Strategy for the Biological Assessment of Addiction
  • Diagnosis in the Addictions 1: Conceptual Problems
  • Causal Factors in Onset of Adolescents’ Cigarette Smoking: A Prospective Study of Urban Black Youth
  • Caffeine: A Potential Drug of Abuse
  • Methadone Maintenance: Past, Present, and Future
  • Implications of Models for Recovery from Alcoholism
  • Controlled Opiate Use: Fact or Artifact?
  • Addiction Relapse
  • Addictions Paradigms Ill: From Theory-Research to Practice and Back
  • SELECTIVE Guide to Current Reference Sources on Topics Discussed in This Issue
  • Index

Biography

Howard J Shaffer, Barry Stimmel