SOURCES:
Michael Weaver, MD, professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences; medical director, Center for Neurobehavioral Research on Addictions, Center for Health Sciences, University of Texas at Houston.
J. Wesley Boyd, MD, PhD, psychiatrist, Cambridge Health Alliance; assistant professor at Harvard Medical School.
American Society of Addiction Medicine: “The Definition of Addiction.”
National Institute on Drug Abuse: “Drug Facts: Understanding Drug Abuse and Addiction”, “Addiction Science”, “Drugs, Brain and Behavior: The Science of Addiction”, “Twin Studies Help Defining the Role of Genes in Vulnerability to Abuse of drugs “”, “Promising advances towards understanding the genetic roots of addiction”.
Ersche, K. Biological Psychiatry, July 2013.
Greenberg, J. Addictive behaviors, July 1999.
Kendler, K. Psychiatry JAMA, March 2015.
Kendler, K. Psychiatry JAMA, July 2012.
