Abstract

The medical treatment of disorders of human behavior has not distinguished itself with scientific success. Students of the etiology of antisocial behavior have produced more theories in explanation than facts in clarification. Specifically, drug addiction, an antisocial disorder of human behavior, has been seen as both sickness and "badness"; it has been treated as sickness by social reformers and as "badness" by a punitive society, rarely simultaneously and in co-operation. The nature versus nurture controversy has droned on endlessly without resolution. The questions are posed and remain unanswered. Was this patient's troublesome behavior inbred, or was the behavior learned by . . .

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