title: Perspectives of "functional failure".
abstract: The present dialogue piece briefly examines six perspectives of functional failure (individual-level, societal-level, life spheres impacted, number of severe consequences, attribution of consequences to drug misuse, and socio-environmental generalizability) as they might apply to seven degrees of drug misuse (constant, dependence, heavy, binging, controlled use, "dry," sober). Variation in judgments of failure is posited across the perspectives and across degrees of drug misuse.
authors.affiliation: Departments of Preventive Medicine and Psychology, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California 90032-3628, USA. ssussma@usc.edu
authors.forename: Steve
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Sussman
mesh_terms: D000223:Adaptation, Psychological; D006801:Humans; D019966:Substance-Related Disorders / Q000523:psychology*