Standardizing terminology in addiction science: To achieve the impossible dream

Addiction

Volumn 102, Issue 7, 2007, Pages 1015-1018

  Babor, Thomas F ^a   Hall, Wayne ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALCOHOL;

ADDICTION; ALCOHOL ABUSE; ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION; ALCOHOLISM; BEHAVIOR DISORDER; DIAGNOSTIC AND STATISTICAL MANUAL OF MENTAL DISORDERS; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; DRUG DEPENDENCE; DRUG USE; EDITORIAL; HUMAN; INTERNATIONAL CLASSIFICATION OF DISEASES; LANGUAGE; MEDICAL SOCIETY; MENTAL DISEASE; NOMENCLATURE; SCIENCE; SMOKING; STANDARDIZATION; SUBSTANCE ABUSE; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

DIAGNOSTIC AND STATISTICAL MANUAL OF MENTAL DISORDERS; HUMANS; INTERNATIONAL CLASSIFICATION OF DISEASES; REFERENCE STANDARDS; SUBSTANCE-RELATED DISORDERS; TERMINOLOGY;

EID: 34250304668     PISSN: 09652140     EISSN: 13600443     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1360-0443.2007.01845.x     Document Type: Editorial

References (14)

1. World Health Organization. Expert Committee on Mental Health, Alcoholism Subcommittee, Second Report. World Health Organization Technical Report Series 48. Geneva : World Health Organization 1952.
2. World Health Organization. Mental disorders: glossary and guide to their classification in accordance with the ninth revision of the international classification of diseases. Geneva : World Health Organization 1978.
3. American Psychiatric Association. Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, 3rd edn. Washington, DC : American Psychiatric Association 1980.
4. American Psychiatric Association. Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, 3rd edn revised. Washington, DC : American Psychiatric Association 1987.
5. American Psychiatric Association. Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, 4th edn, revised. Washington, DC : American Psychiatric Association 1994.
6. Guze S. D., Tuason V. B., Gatfield P. D., Stewart M. A., Picken B. Psychiatric illness and crime with particular reference to alcoholism; a study of 223 criminals. J Nerv Ment Dis 1962 134 : 512 21.
7. Feighner J., Robins E., Guze S., Woodruff R., Winkour G., Munoz R. Diagnostic criteria for use in psychiatric research. Arch Gen Psychiatry 1972 26 : 57 63.
8. Robins L. The diagnosis of alcoholism after DSM III. In : Meyer R. E., Babor T. F., Glueck B. C., Jaffe J. H., O'Brien J. E., Stabenau J. R., editors. Evaluation of the alcoholic: implications for research, theory and treatment. NIAAA Research Monograph no. 5. DHHS Publications no. 81-1033. Washington, DC : US Government Printing Office, Superintendent of Documents 1981, p. 85 102.
9. Babor T. F. Megatrends and dead ends: alcohol research in global perspective. Alcohol Health Res World 1993 17 : 177 86.
10. Babor T. F., Stenius K., Savva S. Publishing Addiction Science: a Guide for the Perplexed. London : International Society of Addiction Journal 2004.
11. Keller M. On defining alcoholism: with comment on some other relevant words. In : Gomberg E. L., White H. R., Carpenter J. A., editors. Alcohol, science and society revisited. Ann Arbor, MI : University of Michigan Press 1982, p. 119 33.
12. Edwards G., Arif A., Hodgson R. Nomenclature and classification of drug- and alcohol-related problems: a WHO memorandum. Bull World Health Organ 1981 59 : 225 42.
13. Edwards G., Gross M. M., Keller M., Moser J., Room R., editors. Alcohol-Related Disabilities. WHO Offset Publishers no. 32. Geneva : World Health Organization 1977.
14. World Health Organization. Lexicon of Alcohol and Drug Terms. Geneva : World Health Organization 1994. Available at: http://www.who.int/ substance_abuse/terminology/who_lexicon/en/ [accessed 17 May 2007].