336
Views
3
CrossRef citations to date
0
Altmetric
Open Peer Commentaries

Addiction May Not Be a Compulsive Brain Disease, But It Is More Than Purposeful Medication of Untreated Psychiatric Disorders

&
Pages 54-55 | Published online: 18 Apr 2012

REFERENCES

  • Bachman , J. G. , Wadsworth , K. N. , O’Malley , P. M. , Johnston , L. D. and Schulenberg , J. 1997 . Smoking, drinking, and drug use in young adulthood: The impacts of new freedoms and new responsibilities , Mahwah , NJ : Lawrence Erlbaum Associates .
  • Carter , A. and Hall , W. 2012 . Addiction neuroethics: The promises and perils of neuroscience research on addiction , London , , UK : Cambridge University Press .
  • Garavan , H. and Stout , J. C. 2005 . Neurocognitive insights into substance abuse . Trends in Cognitive Sciences , 9 ( 4 ) : 195 – 201 .
  • Hall , W. , Degenhardt , L. and Teesson , M. 2009 . Understanding comorbidity between substance use, anxiety and affective disorders: Broadening the research base . Addictive Behaviors , 34 ( 6–7 ) : 526 – 530 .
  • Kelly , J. F. , Hoeppner , B. , Stout , R. L. and Pagano , M. 2012 . Determining the relative importance of the mechanisms of behavior change within Alcoholics Anonymous: A multiple mediator analysis . Addiction , 107 ( 2 ) : 289 – 299 .
  • Khantzian , E. J. 1997 . The self-medication hypothesis of substance use disorders: A reconsideration and recent applications . Harvard Review of Psychiatry , 4 ( 5 ) : 231 – 244 .
  • Petry , N. , Alessi , S. M. and Rush , C. 2011 . “ Contingency management treatment for drug and alcohol use disorders ” . In In Addiction and Responsibility , Edited by: Poland , J. S. and Graham , G. 225 – 246 . London , , UK : MIT Press .
  • Pickard , H. 2012 . The purpose in chronic addiction . AJOB Neuroscience , 3 ( 2 ) : 40 – 49 .
  • Project Match Research Group. 1998 . Matching alcoholism treatments to client heterogeneity: Project MATCH three-year drinking outcomes . Alcoholism: Clinical and Experimental Research , 22 ( 6 ) : 1300 – 1311 .
  • Teesson , M. , Degenhardt , L. , Lynskey , M. and Hall , W. 2005 . “ The relationships between substance use and mental health problems: evidence from longitudinal studies ” . In Preventing harmful substance use: The evidence base for policy and practice , Edited by: Stockwell , T , Grunewald , P. , Toumbourou , J. and Loxley , W. 43 – 51 . Chichester , , UK : John Wiley and Sons .

Reprints and Corporate Permissions

Please note: Selecting permissions does not provide access to the full text of the article, please see our help page How do I view content?

To request a reprint or corporate permissions for this article, please click on the relevant link below:

Academic Permissions

Please note: Selecting permissions does not provide access to the full text of the article, please see our help page How do I view content?

Obtain permissions instantly via Rightslink by clicking on the button below:

If you are unable to obtain permissions via Rightslink, please complete and submit this Permissions form. For more information, please visit our Permissions help page.