Substance and Behavioral Addictions: Concepts, Causes, and Cures

Substance and Behavioral Addictions: Concepts, Causes, and Cures presents the concepts, etiology, assessment, prevention, and cessation of substance (tobacco, alcohol, other drugs, and food) and behavioral (gambling, Internet, shopping, love, sex, exercise, and work) addictions. The text provides a novel and integrative appetitive motivation framework of addiction, while acknowledging and referencing multi-level influences on addiction, such as neurobiological, cognitive, and micro-social and macro-social/physical environmental. The book discusses concurrent and substitute addiction, and offers prevention and treatment solutions, which are presented from a more integrative perspective than traditional presentations. This is an ideal text for upper-level undergraduates and graduate students, practitioners, and researchers.

Steve Sussman, PhD, FAAHB, FAPA, received his doctorate in social-clinical psychology from the University of Illinois, Chicago in 1984. He is a professor of preventive medicine, psychology, and social work at the University of Southern California. His programs include Project Towards No Tobacco Use, Project Towards No Drug Abuse, and Project EX, which are considered model programs at numerous agencies (such as the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the National Institute on Drug Abuse, the National Cancer Institute, Centers for Substance Abuse Prevention, Colorado and Maryland Blueprints, Health Canada and the US Department of Education). He received the honor of Research Laureate for the American Academy of Health Behavior in 2005, where he served as president from 2007–8. As of 2007, he received the honor of Fellow of the American Psychological Association (Division 50, Addictions).