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Now revised and updated, this widely used text comprehensively reviews theories of addiction to give students and professionals a multidisciplinary foundation for clinical practice. It explores the causes and mechanisms of substance and behavioral addictions, as well as implications for helping people recover. Providing a science-based perspective, the text emphasizes the importance of using treatment and prevention strategies that are grounded in evidence. Thoroughly updated chapters address disease models; public health approaches; understanding and treating comorbidity; psychoanalytic, behavioral, cognitive, and family systems models; sociocultural approaches; behavioral addiction; and motivational models. Student-friendly features include end-of-chapter summaries and review questions.



New to This Edition Updated throughout with current research and clinical advances. Discussions of cutting-edge topics: genetics of addiction, addiction stigma, and the opioid epidemic. New and revised clinical vignettes and review questions.

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CHOICE Review

First published, under Thombs's name only, some 25 years ago (CH, Oct'94, 32-1233), Introduction to Addictive Behaviors has a lot to offer health, human services, and psychology students. In putting together the 5th edition, Thombs (North Texas Health Science Center, Fort Worth) and Osborn (Kent State Univ.), both accomplished researchers and clinicians in addictions studies, found the right blend to appeal to all levels in this intellectual marketplace. With their systematic prose and pedagogical aids for enhancing readability--end-of-chapter summaries and review questions for each chapter--the authors help students master the addictions literature. The book appears to have been thoroughly updated since the last edition (2013), with the latest statistics covering the sharply spiraling rises of drug overdose deaths and newly emerging treatment techniques. The authors offer both a historical perspective on addictions treatment and wide-ranging coverage of the addictions realm--topics include alcohol and drugs, gambling, compulsive shopping, and sexual behavior. General readers can learn from this work, though its textbook format suggests readers of a more scholastic turn. Summing Up: Highly recommended. Upper-division undergraduates through faculty and professionals; general readers. --William Feigelman, emeritus, Nassau Community College

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Dennis L. Thombs, PhD, FAAHB, is Professor and Dean of the School of Public Health at the University of North Texas Health Science Center in Fort Worth. The focus of his scholarship is addictive behavior, with special interests in the epistemology of addiction, and in alcohol and drug use during the period of emerging adulthood. In recent years, his research has focused on analyzing drinking practices and their consequences in natural settings. Dr. Thombs is Managing Coeditor of the American Journal of Health Behavior . He is past President and Fellow of the American Academy of Health Behavior.



Cynthia J. Osborn, PhD, LPCC-S, LICDC, is Professor of Counselor Education and Supervision at Kent State University. Her clinical background is in treatment of adults with co-occurring disorders (substance use disorders and mental illness). Her teaching, supervision, and scholarship focus on addictions counseling, particularly evidence-based practices such as motivational interviewing. She is a member of the Motivational Interviewing Network of Trainers and has extensive experience in the clinical supervision of counselors-in-training and professional counselors.