Abuse of alcohol, marijuana, sedative-hypnotics, or stimulants does not necessarily contraindicate analysis for an otherwise adequately functioning individual who can attend sessions regularly in a sober state and who otherwise fulfills the accepted criteria of analyzability. Since these criteria effectively exclude the chronic severe abuser, however, a psychoanalyst interested in substance abuse must turn to the writings of the small handful of colleagues with extensive drug experience and to the literature of other disciplines.

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