The Drug User Personality Issues, Factors, and Theories An Annotated
The personality of the individuals who use a variety of sub stances, singly or in combination, which are legal or illegal in status, for non-medical reasons, has been of interest and concern to a variety of intervention agents and groups for many decades
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PersonalITY Issues, Factors, and Theories An Annotated Bibliography
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Personality Issues, Factors, and Theories An Annotated Bibliography
Stanley Einstein Institute for th~ Study of Drug Misuse New York, New York
PLENUM PRESS· NEW YORK AND WNDON
Ubrary of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data Einstein, Stanley. The Drug user. Bibliography: p. 1. Drug abuse-Etiology. 2. Drug abuse-Bibliography. I. TiUe. [DNLM: 1. Substance dependence-Psychology. 2. Substance abuse-Psychology. WM 270 D7952] RC564.E381983 616.86'3071 82-18905
ISBN-13:978-146844147-5 e-ISBN-13:978-1-46844145-1 DOl: 10.1007/978-14684-4145-1
© 1983 Plenum Press, New York Softcover reprint of the hardcover 1st edition 1983 A Division of Plenum Publishing Corporation 233 Spring Street, New York, N.Y. 10013 All rights reserved No part of this book may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, microfilming, recording, or otherwise, without written permission from the Publisher
CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION
1
Classification Systems
17
Drug User Personality Theories and Interventions
19
Factors Initiating Treatment
23
The Screening Process
24
Treatment Goals
26
BIBLIOGRAPHY Articles in Books, Books, Dissertations
43 156
Presentations
202
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INTRODUCTION
The personality of the individuals who use a variety of substances, singly or in combination, which are legal or illegal in status, for non-medical reasons, has been of interest and concern to a variety of intervention agents and groups for many decades. Indeed, a review of the literature leads to the conclusion that this interest has in no way waned. More and more articles and books are written, and more and more research is planned and carried out, which are designed to describe the personality of the knOWll-yisible drug user(s). If anything this interest has broadened to include the spouse of the drug user, his or her parents, and at times the child of the drug user. In simplistic terms the thesis is posited or hinted at, that a specific type of individual will use "drugs" in a socio-cultural unacceptable manner. And the critical factor which is pinpointed to explain this type of drug use is the personality/character-traits of the individual, alone or in combination with other factors. These latter factors can include, among others, the primary and secondary effects of drugs, the meaning attributed to the manner of using drugs (oral, intravenous, intramuscular, sniffing, smoking, etc.,) as well as to the drug experience, the external environment, genetics, drug availability, individual and group coping skills; as well as socio-political-economic factors. In a sense the data which has been collected, and the theories which grow out of them, ask us to consider and believe that they offer us the key to understanding the etiology of drug use, and by implication the etiology of abstinence. And once this key is in our hands effective intetvention, whatever its scope and depth, is simply a matter of approp
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