1st Edition

The Addictive Behaviors

By Howard J Shaffer, Barry Stimmel Copyright 1984

    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