Treating Addictive Behaviors: Processes of Change

About a decade ago, psychologists began exploring the commonalities among alcohol and drug abuse, smoking, and obesity. The term substance abuse evolved into the current concept of addictive behaviors, which recognizes similarities with other behaviors that do not involve consummatory responses (e. g. , pathological gambling, compulsions, sexual deviations). Professional societies and journals now have been founded in both Britain and the United States with the purpose of focus­ ing on rese...