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Volume 1 Issue 1, 2015
Journal of Reward Deficiency Syndrome
Table of Contents
Editorial
Reward Deficiency Syndrome (RDS): Entering the Genomics and Neuroscience Era of Addiction Medicine
Pages 1-2
Kenneth Blum and Rajendra D. Badgaiyan
Letter to the Editor
Should We Embrace Vaccines for Treating Substance-Related Disorder, A Subset of Reward Deficiency Syndrome (RDS)?
Pages 3-5
Kenneth Blum, Rajendra D. Badgaiyan, Daniel H. Anges and Mark S. Gold
Short Commentary
Reward Deficiency Syndrome: Attentional/Arousal Subtypes, Limitations of Current Diagnostic Nosology, and Future Research
Pages 6-9
Edward Justin Modestino, Kenneth Blum, Marlene Oscar-Berman, Mark S. Gold, Drake D. Duane, Sarah G.S. Sultan and
Sanford H. Auerbach
Commentary
Individualizing Opioid Use Disorder (OUD) Treatment: Time to Fully Embrace a Chronic Disease Model
Pages 10-15
Richard Gustin, Jake Nichols and Peter R. Martin
Rebuttal Commentary
Do We Really Need to Continue Pharmacotherapy for Opioid Use Disorder (OUD) Indefinitely?
Pages 16-19
Rajendra D. Badgaiyan, Sampada Sinha and Kenneth Blum
Hypothesis
Enhancing Brain Pregnenolone May Protect Cannabis Intoxication but Should Not Be Considered as an Anti-addiction
Therapeutic: Hypothesizing Dopaminergic Blockade and Promoting Anti-Reward
Pages 20-23
Kenneth Blum, Marlene Oscar-Berman, Eric R. Braverman, Marcelo Febo, Mona Li and Mark S. Gold
Case Series
Using the Neuroadaptagen KB200z™ to Ameliorate Terrifying, Lucid Nightmares in RDS Patients: the Role of Enhanced,
Brain-Reward, Functional Connectivity, and Dopaminergic Homeostasis
Pages 24-35
Thomas McLaughlin, Kenneth Blum, Marlene Oscar-Berman, Marcelo Febo, Zsolt Demetrovics, Gozde Agan, James Fratantonio and
Mark S. Gold
Original Research
NIDA-Drug Addiction Treatment Outcome Study (DATOS) Relapse as a Function of Spirituality/Religiosity
Pages 36-45
Stephen J. Schoenthaler, Kenneth Blum, Eric R. Braverman, John Giordano, Ben Thompson, Marlene Oscar-Berman,
Rajendra D. Badgaiyan, Margaret A. Madigan, Kristina Dushaj, Mona Li, Zsolt Demotrovics, Roger L. Waite and Mark S. Gold
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Volume 1 Issue 1, 2015
Journal of Reward Deficiency Syndrome
Table of Contents
Expert Opinion
The Molecular Neurobiology of Twelve Steps Program & Fellowship: Connecting the Dots for Recovery
Pages 46-64
Kenneth Blum, Benjamin Thompson, Zsolt Demotrovics, John Femino, John Giordano, Marlene Oscar-Berman, Scott Teitelbaum,
David E. Smith, A. Kennison Roy, Gozde Agan, James Fratantonio, Rajendra D. Badgaiyan and Mark S. Gold
Clinical Pearl
Molecular Genetic Testing in Reward Deficiency Syndrome (RDS): Facts and Fiction
Pages 65-68
Kenneth Blum, Rajendra D. Badgaiyan, Gozde Agan, James Fratantonio, Thomas Simpatico, Marcelo Febo, Brett C. Haberstick,
Andrew Smolen and Mark S. Gold
Book Review
Two Addiction Professionals Review of “Molecular Neurobiology of Addiction Recovery: The 12 Steps Program and Fellowship”
Pages 69-70
Joan Borsten and Liz Winchell
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