Includes bibliographical references and index

Beyond drugs : addictions in the context of recurrent/progressive psychiatric illness / Alan C. Swann -- Behavioral mechanisms in addiction / Margaret C. Wardle, Jin H. Yoon, Anka A. Vujanovic, Michael F. Weaver, Scott D. Lane, and Joy M. Schmitz -- The biology of nicotine addiction and factors that differentiate youth who smoke from those who do not / Felicia R. Carey and Anna V. Wilkinson -- Resilience and opiate misuse / Sameer Hassamal, Divya Ramesh, and F. Gerard Moeller -- Alcohol-related disorders : adaptations and progression to disordered drinking / Therese A. Kosten, Colin Haile, Marijn Lijffijt, and Alan C. Swann -- The neurobiology of behavioral sensitization / Jeffery D. Steketee -- Stress and addiction / Marijn Lijffijt -- The neurobiology of behavioral addictions : sexual addiction / Donald L. Hilton Jr., Stefanie Carnes, and Todd L. Love -- Norepinephrine as a therapeutic target for cocaine-use disorder / Colin N. Haile, Thomas F. Newton, and Thomas R. Kosten -- Cannnabis, endocannabinoids, and mechanisms of addiction / Christopher Rodgman and Christopher D. Verrico -- Cocaine addiction therapy pharmacogenetics / David A. Nielsen -- Increasing the information yield from clinical trials in addictions : Bayesian statistics, adaptive designs, and biomarker evaluation / Charles Green, Robert Suchting, Nuvan Rathnayaka, Margaret Wardle, and Joy M. Schmitz -- Mechanisms of sensitization to stress, affective episodes, and abused substances : implications for treatment and prevention / Robert M. Post