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The Nature of drug dependence

edited by Griffith Edwards and Malcolm Lader

(Oxford medical publications)(Monograph (Society for the Study of Addiction), no. 1)

Oxford University Press, 1990

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Based on a meeting held in April 1988 in Berkshire, U.K.; sponsored by the Society for the Study of Addiction

Includes bibliographical references and index

Description and Table of Contents

Description

This book derives from a workshop which brought together North American and British experts to look at the crucial question - "What is dependence?". These ideas were examined in relation to both alcohol and drugs. The problems which the workshop tackled are of manifest scientific and social importance in their own right, but again added interest as an example of science fruitfully crossing traditional scientific boundaries. The book conveys the live sense of the workshop's debate and clash of ideas, and edited typescripts of the debate are included as well as chapters deriving from the background papers which were considered.

Table of Contents

  • Dependence - historical concepts and constructs, Virginia Berridge
  • social, scientific and medical issues in the definition of alcohol and drug dependence, Thomas F.Babor
  • validation of the dependence syndrome - have we crossed the half-life of this concept?, Harvey A.Skinner
  • the genetic aspects of alcoholism and substance abuses - a review, Dr C.C.H.Cook and Dr H.M.D.Gurling
  • cellular tolerance and dependence, John M.Littleton and Joyce C.Harper
  • neurobiological and behavioural approaches to tolerance and dependence, Kathleen A.Grant et al
  • drug-seeking behaviour - implications for theories of drug dependence, Charles Schuster
  • psychological and social basis of drug dependence - an analysis of drug-seeking behaviour in animals, dependence as learned behaviour
  • looking for a synthesis in studying the nature of dependence facing up to complexity, Jim Orford.

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