Evaluation of drug treatment requires the critical examination of assumptions of the kinds of relationships people establish with substances, and the ways in which these beliefs have influenced researchers, health professionals and law makers in dealing with the “problem of drug abuse.” This is the purpose of the present paper, which also sets out an expanded frame of reference with which to address salient issues facing the field of addiction science.
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