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Maintenance of Behavior by “Schedules”: An Unfamiliar Contribution to Maintenance of Abuses

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Social and Medical Aspects of Drug Abuse
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It has become almost trite to say that drug abuse is the result of many interrelated factors. There is no one single sufficient cause. We are hearing about various factors today. Because there are many contributing factors there are therefore many ways of combating abuse. We should be looking for ways to understand as many of the different contributing factors as possible and learning how to use our knowledge to attack abuse from as many different angles as possible.

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Dews, P.B. (1984). Maintenance of Behavior by “Schedules”: An Unfamiliar Contribution to Maintenance of Abuses. In: Serban, G. (eds) Social and Medical Aspects of Drug Abuse. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-6320-0_6

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