ABSTRACT
Drug dreams are a ubiquitous phenomenon among drug-addicted patients. The first important study on drug dreams among heroin-addicted patients appeared in the 1970s. S. Y. Choi investigated the importance of dreams about drinking among alcoholics who were in the process of a therapy. Beaman, in alcohol and/or amphetamine addicted patients, described three types of drug dreams: "consuming", "struggling" and "accepting" dreams. Choi was also the first author to explain drug dreams by making explicit reference to the Freudian dream theory. G. Christo and C. Franey, studying polydrug users found that drug dreams are more frequent in abstinent patients rather than in patients who use drugs regularly. Some authors have drawn attention to the effects of abstinence from drugs on the occurrence of drug dreams: for example, by comparing groups of abstinent patients vs. groups of patients who use drugs regularly. Choi concluded that dreaming about drinking is a good prognostic sign in the heroin-addicted patients.
