Investigations over the past two years have indicated that there is an upward trend in drug addiction and that the increase is predominantly among the younger members of society. Addiction has been compared to a contagious disease and the more our attitude toward addiction approximates our attitude toward contagious disease, the better will be our understanding and control of addiction. Physici...

Surely, we all know someone close to us who uses drugs. Consider, for example, tobacco or alcohol, even marijuana. They may at some point have tried stop using and, after somewhat longer shorter periods of abstinence, started again.
 Not every drug user develops an addiction: addicts’ lives revolve around compulsive drug-seeking and use; they lose control over their own decision-making end...

Substance abuse and drug addiction are two of the most common psychopathologies among the general population. While a host of risk factors are associated with the onset of drug abuse and drug addiction, there is a growing body of evidence pointing to the powerful influence of early adverse experiences, both child neglect and maltreatment, as well as drug use and abuse in parents and/or primary ...

Research on a model Therapeutic Workplace has allowed for evaluation of the use of employment in the treatment of drug addiction. Under the Therapeutic Workplace intervention, adults with histories of drug addiction are hired and paid to work. To promote drug abstinence or adherence to addiction medications, participants are required to provide drug-free urine samples or take prescribed addicti...

What is drug addiction? It is drug taking on the part of the individual that is usually excessive, harmful to the individual or his/her social environment, and which therefore presents a significant public health problem. The chapters in this technical review deal with the variety of issues of why drug addiction affects only some of us. As documented in these chapters, many of us are exposed on...