Theories on Drug Abuse: Selected Contemporary Perspectives

THEORIES ON
DRUG ABUSE

Selected Contemporary
Perspectives

Editors:

DAN J. LETTIERI, Ph.D.

MOLLIE SAYERS

HELEN WALLENSTEIN PEARSON

NIDA Research Monograph 30
March 1980

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College of Physicians and Surgeons
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Langley Porter Neuropsychiatry institute
University of California
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Department of Psychology. UCLA
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Alcohol and Drug Abuse Research Center
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Washington University School of Medicine
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THEORIES ON
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Selected Contemporary
Perspectives

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Contents

FOREWORD xi

A GUlDE TO THE VOLUME xiii

Part 1

THEORETICAL PERSPECTIVES

AND OVERVIEWS