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| Year : 1999 | Volume
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| Issue : 4 | Page : 289-299 |
The Ongoing Quest for Sub-Typing Substance Abuse : Current Status
Nitin Gupta1, Debasish Basu2
1 Senior Resident, Department of Psychiatry, Postgraduate Institute of Medical Education and Research, Chandigarh-160 012, India
2 Assistant Professor, Drug De-addiction & Treatment Centre, Department of Psychiatry, Postgraduate Institute of Medical Education and Research, Chandigarh-160 012, India
Correspondence Address:
Debasish Basu
Assistant Professor, Drug De-addiction & Treatment Centre, Department of Psychiatry, Postgraduate Institute of Medical Education and Research, Chandigarh-160 012
India
 Source of Support: None, Conflict of Interest: None  | Check |
PMID: 21430800 
Substance abuse is a heterogenous disorder that necessitates classification for purposes of evaluation and treatment. Although a large number of typologies have been generated, the research has mostly focussed on alcoholism. The typologies of 'age at onset' and Cloninger's Type 1/Type2' have been extensively researched even though there is a lack of adequate validation. The present review of various typologies focusses more on the conceptual and methodological issues. A critique of the typological work is presented; highlighting the paucity of Indian research in this important area of substance abuse.
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