Determinants of Substance Abuse

Download or read book Determinants of Substance Abuse written by Mark Galizio and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 1985-04-30 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With the recent increase in the scope of drug and alcohol problems has come an awareness of the need for solutions. As data accumulates, it is becoming more apparent that substance abuse problems are extremely complex and are influenced by a variety of biological, psychological, and environmental variables. Unfortunately, it has proved difficult to go beyond this conclusion to a description of how these multiple factors work together to influence the development of, and recovery from, drug and alcohol dependence. The purpose of this book is to try to meet that objective by including in one volume theoretical analyses from a wide variety of drug researchers. In each case, the author was asked to consider how the variables in their particular domain might contribute to the appearance of individual differences in both alcohol and drug related problems. The resulting volume is a valuable source for those wishing to take a more interdisciplinary approach to substance abuse issues. -- from Preface.