[Personalised treatment of disorders in the use of alcohol and nicotine].

BACKGROUND: There is an increasing interest in personalised treatment based on the individual characteristics of the patient in the field of addiction care.

AIM: To summarise the present state of staging and profiling possibilities within addiction care.

METHOD: A literature review highlighting the current scientific findings and proposing a theoretical model.

RESULTS: There are currently an insufficient number of studies to allow for a fully data driven model. However, research identifying biomarkers is growing and some clinically implementable findings can be put forward.

CONCLUSION: a personalised approach in addiction care holds promise. There is an urgent need for better and larger datasets to empirically support models aimed for clinical use.