Kenneth Blum, Abdala Bowirrat, Igor Elman, David Baron, Panayotis K Thanos, Mark S Gold, Colin Hanna, Milan T Makale, Keerthy Sunder, Nicole Jafari, Foojan Zeine, Kevin T Murphy, Miles Makale, Rajendra D Badgaiyan
Since 1990, published addiction psychiatry articles have exceeded 11,495. Several from Blum et al. showed the clinical relevance of the Genetic Addiction Risk Severity (GARS) test in identifying risk for reward deficiency behaviors in cohorts from polysubstance and pain clinics, post-surgical bariatrics, and DWI offenders facing prison time. Since Blum et al first published in JAMA (1990) concerning the association of the DRD2 gene polymorphism and severe alcoholism, confirmation has been mixed and controversial...
June 29, 2023: Clinical and Experimental Psychology