I: Nature, Aetiology, Epidemiology.- 1 Alcohol and Drug Misuse Treatment: Problems and Issues.- 2 The Nature of Addiction.- 3 Vicious Circles in Alcoholism and Drug Dependence.- 4 The Epidemiology of Drug abuse and Drug abuse Rehabilitation.- 5 The Interaction Between Alcohol and Other Forms of Drug Taking.- II: Medical Complications.- 6 The Medical Complications of Drug abuse.- III: Treatment.- 7 Psychotherapy of Drug Dependents and Alcoholics.- 8 New and Innovative Techniques in the Treatment of Drug abuse.- 9 A Therapeutic Community for Dependent Individuals ('Addicts') in Prison.- IV: Prevention.- 10 Social Policy and the Prevention of Drug Abuse: Perspective on the Unimodal Approach.- 11 An Enforcement-Prevention Perspective on Drug abuse.- V: The Laboratory's Contribution.- 12 Detection and Measurement of Drugs in Biological Fluids: Their Relevance to the Problem of Drug Abuse.