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Addictive Behavior

Known as: DEPENDENCE ADDICTIVE, ADDICTION, Behavior, Addictive 
The observable, measurable, and often pathological activity of an organism that portrays its inability to overcome a habit resulting in an insatiable… 
National Institutes of Health

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AOD dependentAlcoholicsDrug DependenceDrug abuse

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Sex addictionphysical dependence

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Highly Cited
2004
Highly Cited
2004
Stimulants and Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder—Reply
To the Editor: The Contempo Update on attention-deficit/ hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) by Dr Wilens and colleagues presented… 
Highly Cited
2003
Highly Cited
2003
One size does not fit all: how the tobacco industry has altered cigarette design to target consumer groups with specific psychological and psychosocial needs.
AIMS To identify whether the tobacco industry has targeted cigarette product design towards individuals with varying… 
Highly Cited
1988
Highly Cited
1988
Fatal outcome in drug addiction
ABSTRACT— A sample of 524 young drug addicts consecutively treated at a special hospital ward has been followed by registers for… 
Review
1986
Review
1986
Alcohol and addictive behavior.
  • P. Rivers
  • Nebraska Symposium on Motivation. Nebraska…
  • 1986
  • Corpus ID: 37155046
Alcohol and drug abuse are among the gravest and most widespread problems clinical psychologists must treat. Though the problems… 
Review
1979
Review
1979
Personality characteristics of heroin addicts: a review of the empirical literature with critique--part II.
This paper is the second part of a two-part series reviewing the empirical literature on personality characteristics of heroin… 
Highly Cited
1967
Highly Cited
1967
Addiction Liability of Albino Rats: Breeding for Quantitative Differences in Morphine Drinking
Selective breeding produced two strains of rats that differ in their susceptibility to morphine addiction. Inbreeding the more… 
Highly Cited
1966
Highly Cited
1966
Twelve-year follow-up of New York narcotic addicts. II. The natural history of a chronic disease.
ALTHOUGH narcotic addiction often manifests itself as a social problem, its medical and psychiatric ramifications suggest that it… 
Highly Cited
1965
Highly Cited
1965
Susceptibility to readdiction as a function of the addiction and withdrawal environments.
Highly Cited
1964
Highly Cited
1964
A FOLLOW-UP OF NARCOTIC ADDICTS; MORTALITY, RELAPSE AND ABSTINENCE.
Kentucky residents who were treated for narcotic addiction at the U. S. Public Health Service Hospital, Lexington, Kentucky… 
Highly Cited
1949
Highly Cited
1949
The addiction liability of methadon (amidone, dolophine, 10820) and its use in the treatment of the morphine abstinence syndrome.
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