Understanding Addiction as Self Medication: Finding Hope Behind the Pain

This book is intended for those who are curious to know how and why. this is so. The concept of addiction as self medication needs further study and elaboration.

Edward J. Khantzian, MD, is clinical professor of psychiatry at Harvard Medical School and associate chief of psychiatry at Tewksbury Hospital, Tewksbury, MA.

Mark J. Albanese, MD, is director of Addictions Treatment Services at Cambridge Health Alliance and assistant clinical professor of psychiatry at Harvard Medical School.