Includes indexes.

THE CONCEPT OF ADDICTION. Opiate Addiction in the United States and the Western World; Divergent Evidence about Narcotic Addiction; Nonbiological Factors in Addiction; The Nature of Addiction -- THE AMERICAN IMAGE OF ALCOHOL: DOES LIQUOR HAVE THE POWER TO CORRUPT AND CONTROL?. The Disease of Alcoholism; Historical, Social, Ethnic, and Economic Factors in Alcoholism in the United States; the Social Science Challenge to the Disease Theory; Controlled-Drinking Therapy for Alcoholism -- THEORIES OF ADDICTION. Genetic Theories; Exposure Theories: biological Models; Exposure Theories: conditioning Models; Adaptation Theories; The Requirements of a Successful Theory of Addiction/ Stanton Peele and Bruce K. Alexander -- ADULT, INFANT, AND ANIMAL ADDICTION. The Effect on the Infant of Mother’s Drug Use; The Addicted Animal; Animal Narcotics Use in Rat Park; What Causes Animals to Accept narcosis?; The Implications of Infant and Animal Research for Conceptions of Addiction / Bruce K. Alexander, Stanton Peele, Patricia F. Hadaway, Stanley J. Morse, Archie Brodsky, and Barry L. Beyerstein -- ADDICTION TO AN EXPERIENCE. Elements of the Addictive Experience; Susceptibility to Addiction and the Choice of Addictive Object: Social and cultural Factors; Susceptibility to and Choice of Addiction: Situational Factors; Susceptibility to and choice of Addiction: Individual Factors; Susceptibility to and choice of Addiction: Developmental Factors; The Nature of Addiction: The Addiction Cycle -- THE IMPAIRED SOCIETY. The Narcotic Connection --Supply and Demand; The Negative Effects of the Belief in Chemical Dependence; Can We Treat Away the Drug Problem?; The Alcoholism and Chemical Dependence Industry; Spreading Diseases; The Cure for Addiction.