Scholarly journals and professional organizations in addiction medicine have recently
discussed the importance of adopting nonstigmatizing and precise terminology. The present …

Abstract focuses on emerging trends that appear to offer a cautiously optimistic prognosis for
substance abuse treatment/first, reports in the professional literature increasingly deal with …

The Western approach to addiction treatment involves a medical or disease orientation to
understanding the onset, course, and management of addiction, and a clinical goal of …

This article examines how a multidimensional conceptual schema (biologic, sociologic,
psychodynamic, and behavioral) can be applied directly to clinical practice methods during …

T he American Society of Addiction Medicine (ASAM)'s Journal of Addiction Medicine and
other leading journals have encouraged the use of precise nonstigmatizing terminology. 1–4 …

The etiology of addiction has a long history of clinical and scientific interest, which is
characterized by differences in conceptual approach, conflicting data and public …

Documenting, understanding, and replicating the outcome of treating drug users/misusers
continue to remain relatively rare phenomena. That is not to say that there isn'ta steady flow …

This chapter is organized into 3 sections. First, the author presents some suggested goals
for substance dependence treatments based on an analysis of what patients, payers, and …

The aim of this research was to produce a grounded theory that describes and explains the
experience of mandated addiction treatment (MAT) using a Straussian (Corbin & Strauss …

This comprehensive clinical resource and text is grounded in cutting-edge knowledge about
the biopsychosocial processes involved in addictive behaviors. Presented are research …