title: Steve Sussman on Matilda Hellman's "Mind the gap! Failure in understanding key dimensions of an addicted drug user's life" addictive effects.
abstract: "Addictive effects" are experiential states sought by individuals that underlie addictive behaviors. Consistent with ideas that addictive effects mimic satiation of appetitive motives, a literature search-derived heuristic catalogue of addictive behaviors is offered and contrasted across four general appetitive-like motives that have been posited as underlying addictive behaviors (dominance, submissiveness, self-pleasure, and nurturance). I suggest, in part, that addictive behaviors are misdirected attempts to satisfy appetitive motives.
authors.affiliation: Institute for Health Promotion & Disease Prevention Research, University of South California, Los Angeles, California 90032-3628, USA. ssussma@usc.edu
authors.forename: Steve
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Sussman
mesh_terms: D055030:Drug Users / Q000523:psychology*; D006801:Humans; D012649:Self Concept; D019966:Substance-Related Disorders / Q000628:therapy*