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Saturday, April 9, 2011

Commentaries on " Addiction and dependence in DSM-V " O'Brien (2011)




APPLYING AN INTERNATIONAL PUBLIC HEALTH PERSPECTIVE TO PROPOSED CHANGES FOR DSM-V (pages 868–870)VLADIMIR POZNYAK, GEOFFREY M. REED and NICOLAS CLARK   (PDF)

SUBSTANCE, NOT SEMANTICS, IS THE ISSUE: COMMENTS ON THE PROPOSED ADDICTION CRITERIA FOR DSM-V (pages 870–872)    THOMAS F. BABOR    (PDF)


DSM-V: TIME FOR CHANGE (pages 872–873) WALTER LING   (PDF)


A COMMENTARY ON ‘ADDICTION AND DEPENDENCE IN DSM-V’ (pages 873–874) ROGER E. MEYER    (PDF)


A WELCOME CHANGE THAT STOPS SHORT OF BEING FULLY SATISFYING (pages 874–875) MARKUS HEILIG     (PDF) 


ADDICTION AND DEPENDENCE: MAKING REALITIES IN THE DSM (pages 875–877) HELEN KEANE, DAVID MOORE and SUZANNE FRASER     (PDF)


DSM-5: EVIDENCE TRANSLATING TO CHANGE IS IMPRESSIVE (pages 877–878) MAREE TEESSON, TIM SLADE and LOUISE MEWTON    (PDF)


LANGUAGE-USE DISORDER: COMMENT ON DSM-V'S PROPOSED ‘ADDICTION AND RELATED DISORDERS’ AND CHARLES O'BRIEN'S ‘ADDICTION AND DEPENDENCE IN DSM-V’ (pages 878–879) DAVID T. COURTWRIGHT     (PDF)




SUBSTANCE USE DISORDERS – A CONCEPTUAL AND TERMINOLOGICAL MUDDLE (pages 879–882) ROBIN ROOM    (PDF)




SUBSTANCE USE DISORDERS IN DSM-V WHEN APPLIED TO ADOLESCENTS (pages 882–884) KEN C. WINTERS, CHRIS S. MARTIN and TAMMY CHUNG
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DIAGNOSING THE USE OF ILLEGAL DRUGS BY OLDER PEOPLE – COMMENTS ON THE PROPOSED CHANGES TO DSM-V (pages 884–885) CARYL BEYNON      (PDF)




THERE IS POTENTIAL FOR CULTURAL AND SOCIAL BIAS IN DSM-V (pages 885–887) RAUL CAETANO       (PDF)




IN SUPPORT OF SUBSTANCE USE DISORDERS (pages 887–888) MARÍA E. MEDINA MORA    (PDF)



NEW AND REMAINING PROBLEMS WITH DSM-V (pages 888–889) AMBROS UCHTENHAGEN     (PDF)




WHY DO WE CARE? NOTES FROM THE PERIPHERY (pages 889–891) KERSTIN STENIUS and JOHAN EDMAN    (PDF) 


DIAGNOSTIC ORPHANS (pages 891–892) RAJAT RAY and ANJU DHAWAN      (PDF) 

 
THE END OF THE DEPENDENCE SYNDROME AS WE KNOW IT? (pages 892–894) COLIN DRUMMOND
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APPLICABILITY OF DSM CRITERIA TO NICOTINE DEPENDENCE (pages 894–895)
JOHN R. HUGHES, TIMOTHY BAKER, NAOMI BRESLAU, LIRIO COVEY and SAUL SHIFFMAN
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RESPONSE TO COMMENTARIES (pages 895–897) CHARLES P. O'BRIEN     (PDF)
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