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Perspectives on Addiction presents a comprehensive, rigorous, and reflective overview of the complex and controversial field of chemical dependency. It is designed for students and clinicians who come in contact with and treat individuals and families struggling with the causes and consequences of substance use disorders. The user-friendly approach to serious content encourages active participation in the learning experience and is designed to have a personal, professional, educational and treatment impact. Readers will develop a novel appreciation for a human desire that pleasures, confounds, and destroys.

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Margaret Fetting,PhD, attended Rosemont College and received her baccalaureate degree from George Washington University and her master's and doctorate from the University of Pennsylvania.

Fetting has been teaching courses and workshops on substance use disorders and addiction in southern California for over 25 years. She has been primarily affiliated with the School of Social Work at the University of Southern California, led the effort to develop substance use disorders courses for its online Virtual Academic Center. She is a visiting faculty member at the America College of Greece in Athens and a regular guest lecturer at the Los Angeles Institute and Society for Psychoanalytic Studies.

Fetting has been in clinical private practice for over 25 years in Santa Monica. She specializes in the treatment of substance use disorders and addiction for individuals, couples, and families. She is affiliated with Clearview Treatment Programs and Milestones Ranch, both nationally-respected and multileveled treatment facilities in Southern California. Fetting addresses national and international audiences, has many articles in print, and published her first text, Perspectives on Addiction , in 2012 with SAGE Publishing Inc.