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Contents
Chapter 1 Dependence
1.0 Introduction p1
1.1 The background to the focus of the thesis p2
1.2 Study hypotheses p4
1.3 Development of the concept of dependence p4
1.4 Dependence as a disease state p5
1.4.1 The debate about disease theories of dependence p8
1.5 Dependence as a bio-psycho-social phenomenon p9
1.5.1 Implications of the bio-psycho-social model p15
1.6 A psychological explanation p17
1.6.1 Implications of the psychological formulation of substance dependence p24 1.7 Formal classification systems p25
Chapter 2 The nature of change
2.0 Introduction p29
2.1 The development of dependence p29
2.2 The maintenance of dependence p33
2.3 Decline in dependence p35
2.4 Validity of the dependence construct p39
2.5 Predictive validity of dependence p40
Chapter 3 The measurement of dependence
3.0 Introduction p46
3.1 Self-report is the most usual method of measuring substance use p46
3.2 The reliability of responses p47
3.2.1 Recall p47
3.2.2 Social desirability p49
3.2.3 Other sources of bias p49
3.2.4 Retest reliability of self-report p50
3.3 The validity of self-report p51
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