Gnoseological prolegomena of capacity of knowledge in addiction psychiatry

Abstract

Mental and behavioral personality disorders provoked by substance use — alcohol and drug addictions — are similar in genesis and social consequences and this dictates necessity of gnoseological understanding of terminological apparatus of this phenomenon. Understanding of use of narcotics as a common criterion of gnoseology may testify that namely community comes forward as criterion of summarized data about considered addictions and capacity of knowledge allows considering drug and alcohol abuse as equivalent ones according to their social significance and pathogenetic patterns.

Keywords

• use of narcotics
• alcohol process
• addictions
• capacity and minimization of knowledge