Resumen de Drug use, drug abuse and heterogeneity

M.D. Glantz, J.D. Colliver

• Concepts and criteria for drug abuse have significant impacts on research and the development of interventions. The empirically supported differentiation of drug use and drug abuse has led to important gains in understanding the aetiology (etiology) of drug abuse. The need for further distinctions that reflect the heterogeneity of drug abuse is explored. The need for more sophisticated models of drug abuse is discussed.