International Forum

Wallace Mandell, Ph.D.
Department of Mental Health
Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
Baltimore, Maryland, United States

Thomas F. Babor, Ph.D., M.P.H.
Department of Community Medicine and Health Care
University of Connecticut School of Medicine
Farmington, Connecticut, United States
and
Robin Room, Ph.D.
University of Melbourne School of Population Health
AER Centre for Alcohol Policy Research
Turning Point Alcohol and Drug Centre
Fitzroy, Victoria, Australia

June 16-19, 2006
Scottsdale, Arizona

June 15-18, 2007
Quebec City, Canada

June 13-17, 2008
San Juan, Puerto Rico

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Creating A Cooperative Network in the Middle East
Mohamed Al-Afifi, Substance Abuse Research Center, Palestine Territory

June 19–23, 2009
Reno, Nevada

Executive Summary

NIDA International Forum Focuses on Commonalities Among the Diseases of Addiction

Drugs. Sex. Gambling. Obesity.

Plenary session speakers at the 14th NIDA International Forum documented the commonalities among these "Disorders of Desire," citing clear overlaps in implicated brain regions and similar patterns of compulsive self-administration, tolerance, craving, comorbidity, disruption of inhibitory control, and impaired decision-making.

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