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If a stranger to the study of mind-altering substances were to consider how societies respond to problems related to their use, he or she would be forgiven for accepting that different drugs result in quite distinct problems, thereby requiring different responses. For example, in Britain, responses to the consequences of, say, opiates and alcohol use are the remit of different governmental departments: problems related to alcohol use are deemed the remit of the Health Department, whereas response to opiate-related problems are the remit of the Home Office. As a result of this compartmentalization, different agencies exist to deal with each drug (e.g. Alcohol Treatment Units; Drug Dependence Clinics further reaffirming any distinction that already exists between these substances. This has abetted a compartmentalization of responses, discouraging any cross-fertilization of ideas, an isolation of clinical researchers in different drug related areas and a duplication of research and services. This duplication and compartmentalization of services exists outwith any sound empirical evidence and in defiance of an accumulation of accepted evidence that most drug users are not exclusive users of one substance, but rather, are multiple drug users. For example, Dight (1976) in a survey of alcohol use in Scotland reported that the best predictor of heavy alcohol use was heavy tobacco use and the recent report by the Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs (1982) noted:
“For some years, it has been accepted by experts in the field that most drug misusers are not now solely dependent on one drug. The same person may be using a number of drugs and may be dependent on more than one of them”. (p.23).
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Allsop, S.J., Saunders, W.M. (1986). Commonalities in the Addictive Behaviors. In: Edwards, G. (eds) Current Issues in Clinical Psychology. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-6775-2_20
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