Summer Institute
   on Longitudinal Research
   August 13-15, 2008

Kevin Conway, Ph.D., National Institute on Drug Abuse

PRESENTATION/HANDOUTS:
"Severity of Addiction:  The Need for a New Instrument"

SELECTED REFERENCES:
Gillespie, N.A., Neale, M.C., Prescott, C.A., Aggen, S.H., & Kendler, K.S. (2007). Factor and item-response analysis DSM-IV criteria for abuse of and dependence on cannabis, cocaine, hallucinogens, sedatives, stimulants and opioids.  Addiction, 102, 920-930.

Kalivas, P.W., & O’Brien, C.P. (2008). Drug addiction as a pathology of staged neuroplasticity.  Neuropsychopharmacology, 33, 166-80.

Kendler, K.S., Prescott, C.A., Myers, J., & Neale, M.C. (2003). The structure of genetic and environmental risk factors for common psychiatric and substance use disorders in men and women. Archives of General Psychiatry, 60, 929-937.

Koob, G. & Kreek, M.J. (2007). Stress, dysregulation of drug reward pathways, and the transition to drug dependence. American Journal of Psychiatry, 164, 1149-1159.

Krueger, R.F., Markon, K.E., Patrick, C.J., & Iacono, W.G. (2005). Externalizing psychopathology in adulthood: A dimensional-spectrum conceptualization and its implications for DSM-V. Journal of Abnormal Psychology, 114, 537-550.

Uhl, G.R., Drgon, T., Johnson, C., Fatusin, O.O., Liu, Q.R., Contoreggi, C., Li, C.Y., Buck, K.,  & Crabbe, J. (2008). Higher order addiction molecular genetics: Convergent data from genome-wide association in humans and mice. Biochemical Pharmacology, 75, 98-111.

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