Research Catalog

Title

Vulnerability to drug abuse / edited by Meyer Glantz and Roy Pickens.

Publication

Washington, DC : American Psychological Association, ©1992.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Glantz, Meyer D.
• Pickens, Roy W.
• American Psychological Association. Science Directorate.
• National Institute on Drug Abuse.

Description

xvi, 533 pages : illustrations; 24 cm

Subject

• Drug abuse > Etiology > Congresses
• Behavior, Addictive > etiology
• Risk Factors
• Substance-Related Disorders > etiology
• Substance-Related Disorders > psychology
• Drug abuse > Etiology
• Drogenabhängigkeit
• Drogenmissbrauch
• Psychologie
• Ätiologie
• Drugsgebruik
• Psychologische aspecten

Genre/Form

• Congress
• proceedings (reports)
• Conference papers and proceedings
• Conference papers and proceedings.
• Actes de congrès.

Note

• Based in part on material presented at a conference held Nov. 13-14, 1989, co-sponsored by the American Psychological Association Science Directorate and the National Institute of Drug Abuse.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Contents

Vulnerability to drug abuse : introduction and overview / Meyer D. Glantz and Roy W. Pickens -- Transitions in drug use : risk and protective factors / Richard R. Clayton -- Nosological considerations in the diagnosis of substance use disorders / Thomas F. Babor -- Familial factors in vulnerability to substance abuse / Kathleen R. Merikangas, Bruce J. Bounsaville, Brigitte A. Prusoff -- Genetic and environmental factors in initiation of drug use and the transition to abuse / Remi J. Cadoret -- Biological factors in sociopathy : relationships to drug abuse behaviors / Roy King, Deborah Curtis, Guenther Knoblich -- The role of psychopathology in the transition from drug use to abuse and dependence / Roger D. Weiss -- Ontogeny of substance abuse : perspectives and findings / Ralph E. Tarter and Ada C. Mezzich -- Affectivity : a central mechanism in the development of drug dependence / Robert J. Pandina, Valerie Johnson, Erich W. Labouvie -- Progression to regular marijuana involvement : phenomenology and risk factors for near-daily use / Denise B. Kandel and Mark Davies -- Understanding the multidimensional nature of drug use and abuse : the role of consumption, risk factors, and protective factors / Michael D. Newcomb -- Relationships between circumstances surrounding initial illicit drug use and escalation of drug use : moderating effects of gender and early adolescent experiences / Howard B. Kaplan and Robert J. Johnson -- Psychosocial risk factors in the transition from moderate to heavy use or abuse of drugs / Judith S. Brook [and others] -- A developmental psychopathology model of drug abuse vulnerability / Meyer D. Glantz -- Predictive factors in adult substance abuse : a prospective study of African American adolescents / Ann F. Brunswick, Peter A. Messeri, Stephen P. Titus -- Another time, another drug / Joan McCord -- The many paths to drug dependence / George E. Woody, Harold C. Urschel III, Arthur Alterman.

ISBN

• 1557981426
• 9781557981424

LCCN

91035242

OCLC

• ocm24468478
• 24468478
• SCSB-13977428

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library