Includes bibliographical references and index.

Defining the problem / Kathleen M. Carroll and William R. Miller The forest and the trees : addictions as a complex self-organizing system / Warren K. Bickel and Marc N. Potenza Biological factors The neurobiology of addiction : a hedonic calvinist view / George F. Koob What can human brain imaging tell us about vulnerability to addiction and to relapse? / Anna Rose Childress Genetics of substance use disorders / Deborah Hasin, Mark Hatzenbuehler, and Rachel Waxman Psychological factors Natural change and the troublesome use of substances : a life-course perspective / Carlo C. Diclemente Developmental perspectives on the risk for developing substance abuse problems / Victor M. Hesselbrock and Michie N. Hesselbrock Comorbid substance use disorders and psychiatric disorders / Kim T. Mueser ... [et al.] Motivational factors in addictive behaviors / William R. Miller Social factors Racial and gender differences in substance use : what should communities do about them? / Harold D. Holder Family and other close relationships / Barbara S. Mccrady Social contexts and substance use / Rudolf H. Moos Ethnography and applied substance misuse research : anthropological and cross-cultural factors / Robert G. Carlson Interventions Behavioral therapies : the glass would be half full if only we had a glass / Kathleen M. Carroll and Bruce J. Rounsaville Pharmacotherapy of addictive disorders / Stephanie S. O'Malley and Thomas R. Kosten Religion, spirituality and the troublesome use of substances / Keith Humphreys and Elizabeth Gifford What we need is a system : creating a responsive and effective substance abuse treatment system / A. Thomas McLellan Drawing the science together : ten principles, ten recommendations / William R. Miller and Kathleen M. Carroll.