Revisiting Preaddiction

Shannon C. Miller; Sharon Levy; Andrew J. Saxon; Jeanette M. Tetrault; Richard N. Rosenthal; Sarah Wakeman; Frank Vocci

doi:10.1097/ADM.0000000000001357

Revisiting Preaddiction

Shannon C. Miller
, Sharon Levy
, Andrew J. Saxon
, Jeanette M. Tetrault
, Richard N. Rosenthal
, Sarah Wakeman
, Frank Vocci

Psychiatry

VA Medical Center
Wright State University
Boston Children's Hospital
Harvard University
University of Washington
VA Puget Sound Health Care System
Yale University
Massachusetts General Hospital
Friends Research Institute

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Abstract

The directors of the National Institute on Drug Abuse and the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism have proposed new efforts to enable earlier identification and intervention for harmful substance use and its consequences. As editors of The ASAM Principles of Addiction Medicine, we fully support this goal. The word “preaddiction” has been suggested as a diagnostic label to describe individuals who would be targeted for early intervention. In this commentary, we offer that “unhealthy substance use” would be a better descriptor than “preaddiction” and review several potential barriers to be addressed in order to maximize the impact of introducing this new paradigm.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	486-487
Number of pages	2
Journal	Journal of Addiction Medicine
Volume	18
Issue number	5
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1097/ADM.0000000000001357
State	Published - Sep 1 2024

Keywords

early intervention
screening
substance use disorders

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