Understanding addiction as a developmental disorder

And answer the following questions: what did the authors mean by the statement “substance abuse and drug addiction are two of the most common psychopathologies among the general population? how do you see this as a dual diagnosis and how? why is such a multilevel approach of the developmental framework in addiction so important? According to the authors, at what stage of life do most addictions begin? What did they mean by saying there is a strong association between the age of the onset of drug use and abuse and the severity and chronicity of the addiction? How did the authors come to think that addictions (including drug and alcohol )

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