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The importance of identifying multiple drug addictions is crucial to clinical diagnosis, prognosis, and treatment as well as to the formulation of the etiology and research models for abuse and addiction to alcohol and drugs. The theoretical implications for the genetic vulnerability and transmission of alcoholism and drug addiction are interesting and far reaching. The traditional understanding of the behavioral principles of addiction and the neurobiology of addiction to individual drugs is challenged by the concept of the multiple addicted, which suggests a universal susceptibility to alcohol and drug addictions.
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Miller, N.S. (1991). The Pharmacology of Multiple Drug and Alcohol Addiction. In: The Pharmacology of Alcohol and Drugs of Abuse and Addiction. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-3044-1_17
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