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Addiction medicine
About: Addiction medicine is a research topic. Over the lifetime, 1070 publications have been published within this topic receiving 23685 citations.
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TL;DR: A European Federation of Addiction Societies could play a leading role in fostering collaboration within Europe and beyond and the coordination and extension of lobbying activities for more funding of addiction research on a European level.
Abstract: National societies for the study of addiction have been established in almost all European countries. However, as yet very little concerted action exists. A European Federation of Addiction Societies could play a leading role in fostering collaboration within Europe and beyond. The coordination and extension of lobbying activities for more funding of addiction research on a European level would be another important goal.
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TL;DR: The last 20 years have brought two major changes in the field of addiction, with an emphasis on addiction as a chronic illness and on unhealthy use as a health condition.
Abstract: The last 20 years have brought two major changes in the field of addiction. First, the US Institute of Medicine (IOM) encouraged recognition of a spectrum of alcohol and other drug use that affects health and is not limited to those with the highest severity [1]. Unhealthy use (the spectrum from use that risks consequences through addiction [2]) among those without addiction is much more common than addiction itself. The second major shift also began in the 1990s with an emphasis on addiction as a chronic illness [3,4] and on unhealthy use as a health condition.
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