Theories on Drug Abuse: Selected Contemporary PerspectivesDepartment of Health and Human Services, Public Health Service, Alcohol, Drug Abuse, and Mental Health Administration, 1980 - Drug abuse - 488 pages |
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... users , whereas a relatively small minority become chronically addicted ? A separate nosological category of addiction can probably be made to include minority - group youths with normal or even better - than - average motivational ...
... users , whereas a relatively small minority become chronically addicted ? A separate nosological category of addiction can probably be made to include minority - group youths with normal or even better - than - average motivational ...
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... users rely on a drug to relieve tension and feel good about themselves , they become a little less capable of coping on their own . By using drugs to cope , the individual is cut off from learning other more adaptive coping mechanisms ...
... users rely on a drug to relieve tension and feel good about themselves , they become a little less capable of coping on their own . By using drugs to cope , the individual is cut off from learning other more adaptive coping mechanisms ...
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... users , and that many who become continual users do not become addicts . Hence , the causes for each stage may be different , and a set of stages is necessary . Our stages are initial drug use , continual use , and addiction . While the ...
... users , and that many who become continual users do not become addicts . Hence , the causes for each stage may be different , and a set of stages is necessary . Our stages are initial drug use , continual use , and addiction . While the ...
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... user correctly identifies and understands these symptoms ( Lindesmith 1947 ) . After I had formulated this hypothesis and was checking and working out its implications in interviews with users and by consulting the scientific literature ...
... user correctly identifies and understands these symptoms ( Lindesmith 1947 ) . After I had formulated this hypothesis and was checking and working out its implications in interviews with users and by consulting the scientific literature ...
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... user is hypothesized to achieve relief via the specific altered ego states induced by psychotropic drugs . The drug ... users of heroin or amphetamine . 1 A. Wikler . Personal communication ( cited in Blachly 1970 ) . Using Bellak et al ...
... user is hypothesized to achieve relief via the specific altered ego states induced by psychotropic drugs . The drug ... users of heroin or amphetamine . 1 A. Wikler . Personal communication ( cited in Blachly 1970 ) . Using Bellak et al ...
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