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The production of this book represents a culmination for me of some
25 years of interest in the field of personality and substance use
and abuse. In choosing the field of substanceuse and abuse for the
focus of our research, all of the investi- tors collaborating in
this research have been sustained by the awareness that the work we
are doing has an important purpose. Substance abuse continues to
have enormous impacts on individuals and families,and prevention
and treatment - proaches developed to date have not always been as
successful as we would hope to see. New advances in our fundamental
understanding of the causal mec- nisms involved in the development
ofaddiction may be necessary to advance our success in developing
new forms of prevention and treatment for alcohol and drug abuse.
The work in this book builds on the work of numerous previous
investi- tors who have been drawn to investigate this topic. As you
will notice in the extensive reference list, there have been
hundreds of articles published on this topic. Although each of
these references has added a small piece to our und- standing of
the relationship between personality and alcohol abuse, the
majority of these studies have been done on clinical samples and
often involved no control groups or poorly matched control groups.
Several important previous longitu- nal investigations have been
conducted,but these investigations have usually not included
general population samples or comprehensivepersonality test
batteries.
The production of this book represents a culmination for me of some
25 years of interest in the field of personality and substance use
and abuse. In choosing the field of substanceuse and abuse for the
focus of our research, all of the investi- tors collaborating in
this research have been sustained by the awareness that the work we
are doing has an important purpose. Substance abuse continues to
have enormous impacts on individuals and families, and prevention
and treatment - proaches developed to date have not always been as
successful as we would hope to see. New advances in our fundamental
understanding of the causal mec- nisms involved in the development
ofaddiction may be necessary to advance our success in developing
new forms of prevention and treatment for alcohol and drug abuse.
The work in this book builds on the work of numerous previous
investi- tors who have been drawn to investigate this topic. As you
will notice in the extensive reference list, there have been
hundreds of articles published on this topic. Although each of
these references has added a small piece to our und- standing of
the relationship between personality and alcohol abuse, the
majority of these studies have been done on clinical samples and
often involved no control groups or poorly matched control groups.
Several important previous longitu- nal investigations have been
conducted, but these investigations have usually not included
general population samples or comprehensivepersonality test
batterie
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