The majority of people presenting for publicly-funded substance abuse treatment relapse
and receive multiple episodes of care before achieving long-term recovery. This Early Re …

Objectives To examine survival and long term cessation of injecting in a cohort of drug users
and to assess the influence of opiate substitution treatment on these outcomes. Design …

Aims The clinical effectiveness of buprenorphine–naloxone (bup‐nx) and clonidine for
opioid detoxification in in‐patient and out‐patient community treatment programs was …

Objectives The aging opioid-addicted cohort from the 1970s has begun to alter the
demographic characteristics of individuals in need of services for heroin addiction. Yet …

This course develops a critical understanding of contemporary psychological approaches to
addiction. Students are introduced to psychological theories of addiction from the fields of …

BackgroundDisinhibition and decision-making skills play an important role in theories on the
cause and outcome of addictive behaviors such as substance use disorders and …

A growing literature supports a role for neurocognitive deficits such as impaired decision-
making in the development and maintenance of addictive behaviour. On the basis of these …

Philosophers and psychologists have been attracted to two differing accounts of addictive
motivation. In this paper, we investigate these two accounts and challenge their mutual claim …

Importance A national policy is under consideration to reduce the nicotine content of
cigarettes to lower nicotine addiction potential in the United States. Objective To examine …

For many individuals, substance use leads to a chronic cycle of relapse, treatment reentry,
and recovery, often lasting for decades. This study replicates earlier work, documents the …