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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2016 Sep 1.
Published in final edited form as: Drug Alcohol Depend. 2015 Jul 6;154:236–242. doi: 10.1016/j.drugalcdep.2015.06.043

Fig. 1.

Fig. 1

An illustration of the concept of addiction resistance. In a general population sample, the number of endorsed symptoms of substance abuse or dependence (y-axis) is predicted by the magnitude of maximal consumption (x-axis). This relationship is depicted by the dotted line – the “regression line in the population.” Addiction resistance is conceptualized as deviations from that expected line. Individuals with low levels of addiction resistance, such as individual B, have a higher level of symptoms than would be predicted by their maximal intake. Individuals with high levels of addiction resistance, such as individual A, have a lower level of symptoms than would be predicted by their maximal intake.