The Addiction-Prone Personality

The production of this book represents a culmination for me of some 25 years of interest in the field of personality and substance use and abuse. In choosing the field of substanceuse and abuse for the focus of our research, all of the investi- tors colla

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LONGITUDINAL RESEARCH IN THE SOCIAL AND BEHAVIORAL SCIENCES An Interdisciplinary Series Series Editors: Howard B. Kaplan, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas Adele Eskeles Gottfried, California State University, Northridge, California Allen W. Gottfried, California State University, Fullerton, California THE ADDICTION-PRONE PERSONALITY Gordon E. Barnes, Robert P. Murray, David Patton, Peter M. Bentler, and Robert E. Anderson DRUG USE AND ETHNICITY IN EARLY ADOLESCENCE William A. Vega, Andres G. Gil, and Associates DRUGS, CRIME, AND OTHER DEVIANT ADAPTATIONS Longitudinal Studies Edited by Howard B. Kaplan PREMARITAL PREDICTION OF MARITAL QUALITY OR BREAKUP Research, Theory, and Practice Thomas B. Holman and Associates RESILIENCE AND DEVELOPMENT Positive Life Adaptations Edited by Meyer D. Glantz and Jeannette L. Johnson

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The Addiction-Prone Personality Gordon E. Barnes University of Victoria, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada

Robert P. Murray

and

David Patton

University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada

Peter M. Bentler University of California, Los Angeles, California

and

Robert E. Anderson University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, New Mexico

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Preface

The production of this book represents a culmination for me of some 25 years of interest in the field of personality and substance use and abuse. In choosing the field of substance use and abuse for the focus of our research, all of the investigators collaborating in this research have been sustained by the awareness that the work we are doing has an important purpose. Substance abuse continues to have enormous impacts on individuals and families, and prevention and treatment approaches developed to date have not always been as successful as we would hope to see. New advances in our fundamental understanding of the causal mechanisms involved in the development of addiction may be necessary to advance our success in developing new forms of prevention and treatment for alcohol and drug abuse. The work in this book builds on the work of numerous previous investigators who have been drawn to investigate this topic. As you will notice in the extensive reference list, there have been hundreds of articles publis