| Preface | |
| Acknowledgments | |
| Psychology of Alcohol and Other Drugs | |
| Focus and Goals of This Book | |
| History of Drugs in America | |
| Origins of Licit Drugs | |
| Origins of Illicit Drugs | |
| Some Central Questions | |
| Summary | |
| Stimulus/Response | |
| Theories of Alcohol and Other Drug Use | |
| A "Layperson" Theory | |
| Psychological Theories | |
| Mediators, Moderators, and Direct Causes | |
| Theories of Smoking | |
| Theory of Caffeine Use | |
| Illicit Drug Theory | |
| Summary | |
| Stimulus/Response | |
| Alcohol and Other Drugs: Use, Abuse, and Dependence | |
| Defining Use | |
| Methods Of Measuring Use | |
| Use, Abuse, and Dependence | |
| Major Conceptions of Alcohol Use Disorders | |
| Criteria of Abuse and Dependence | |
| Assessment of DSM-IV Disorders | |
| Summary | |
| Stimulus/Response | |
| The Extent of Alcohol and Other Drug Use | |
| The Epidemiological Approach | |
| National Surveys of Alcohol and Other Drug Use | |
| Stability of Alcohol Use Patterns | |
| Abuse and Dependency Rates | |
| Comorbidity of Alcohol and Illicit Drugs | |
| Other Sources of Data | |
| The Ethnographic Approach | |
| Summary | |
| Stimulus/Response | |
| Neurobiology of Alcohol and Other Drug Use | |
| What Happens After Drugs Are Taken? | |
| How Drugs Affect the Nervous System | |
| How Neurons Communicate | |
| How Alcohol and Other Drugs Affect Neurotransmission | |
| Changes in Neurophysiology With Prolonged Drug Use | |
| Neuroadaptational Models | |
| Physical Effects of Drugs | |
| A Safe Level of Alcohol Use? | |
| Summary | |
| Stimulus/Response | |
| Heredity and Environment: Alcohol and Other Drug Use | |
| Molecular Genetics | |
| Indirect Evidence of Hereditary Influences on Alcoholism | |
| Direct Evidence of Hereditary Influences on Alcoholism | |
| Family Environment Influences | |
| Integrative Models of Heredity and Environment | |
| Summary | |
| Stimulus/Response | |
| Basic Psychological Processes | |
| Methodological Issues | |
| Mood and Emotion | |
| Emotional Regulation and Drinking | |
| Sensory Motor Activity | |
| Cognition | |
| Structural Neuropsychological Explanations | |
| Process Neuropsychological Explanations | |
| Summary | |
| Stimulus/Response | |
| Interpersonal Processes | |
| Aggression | |
| Moderators of the Alcohol-Aggression Relationship | |
| A Moderator Variable Model | |
| Sexual Activity | |
| Summary | |
| Stimulus/Response | |
| Family Processes | |
| Alcohol and Marital Status | |
| Effects of Parental Alcohol Use Disorders on Children | |
| Alcoholic Family Interactions | |
| Adult Children of Alcoholics | |
| Codependency | |
| Summary | |
| Stimulus/Response | |
| Age and Alcohol and Other Drugs | |
| Adolescents | |
| College Students | |
| Young Adults | |
| Older Populations | |
| Age, Cohort, and Period Effects | |
| Summary | |
| Stimulus/Response | |
| Gender Differences In Alcohol and Other Drug Use | |
| Methodological and Conceptual Issues | |
| Gender and Prevalence of Alcohol Use | |
| Gender Correlates of Alcohol and Other Drug Use | |
| Gender and Alcoholism Treatment | |
| Theories of Gender Differences in Alcohol and Other Drug Use | |
| Smoking and Gender | |
| Gender and Other Drug Use | |
| Summary | |
| Stimulus/Response | |
| Minority Groups: Alcohol and Other Drug Use | |
| Racial/Ethnic Minority Groups and Alcohol | |
| Racial/Ethnic Minority Groups and Smoking | |
| Racial/Ethnic Minority Groups and Illicit Drugs | |
| Influence of Acculturation on Alcohol and Other Drug Use | |
| Sexual Minority Groups and Alcohol | |
| Summary | |
| Stimulus/Response | |
| Recovering From Alcohol and Other Drug Dependencies | |
| Motivating Change | |
| Methods of Recovery | |
| Alcoholics Anonymous and Related Mutual Help Groups | |
| Behavioral Model | |
| Self-Help Treatment for the Family of Alcoholics | |
| Natural Recovery | |
| Stimulus/Response | |
| Treatment of Alcohol and Other Drug Dependencies | |
| Typical 28-Day Inpatient Treatment | |
| Size of the Treatment Population | |
| Reasons for Not Seeking Treatment | |
| Psychotherapy | |
| Behavioral Approaches | |
| Family Therapy | |
| Brief Intervention Therapy | |
| Early Detection and Screening | |
| Pharmacological Approaches | |
| Combining Behavioral and Pharmacological Treatment | |
| Evaluation of Treatment Programs | |
| Determining How Effective Therapies Work | |
| Matching Patients and Treatments | |
| Alcoholics With Dual Diagnoses | |
| Other Drugs: Treatment of Abuse and Dependency | |
| Smoking Treatments | |
| Summary | |
| Stimulus/Response | |
| Relapse After Treatment of Alcohol and Other Drug Disorders | |
| Defining Relapse | |
| Craving and Relapse | |
| A Dynamic Model of Relapse | |
| Successful Lapse Resistance | |
| Summary | |
| Stimulus/Response | |
| Prevention of Alcohol and Other Drug Problems | |
| Social Policy and Drugs | |
| The Public Health Model | |
| Primary Prevention | |
| Secondary Prevention | |
| Harm Reduction Approach | |
| Promoting Social Change | |
| A Tale of Two Drugs | |
| The Future of Prevention | |
| Summary | |
| Stimulus/Response | |
| Glossary | |
| References | |
| Index | |
| About the Author | |
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