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Epidemiological dynamics describes the scope of this chapter, with a focused look at epidemiological dynamics most pertinent to the initiation and persistence or cessation of psychoactive drug self-administration behaviors. I consider some of the associated neuropsychiatric and behavioral syndromes that can emerge under conditions of persistence, along with associated hazard-laden and socially maladaptive consequences of these behaviors and syndromes. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2016 APA, all rights reserved)