ABSTRACT
The environmental setting in which behavioral excesses occur usually is assigned the minor role of a possible precipitator, but not really a determiner. The psyche is self-moved and is the efficient cause of behavior. Self-control behavior constitutes changing or removing those variables producing unwanted personal behavior. Self-control behavior affords a certain fascination for it allows behavior to escape from the control of environmental variables into determination by personal history. The very occurrence of adjunctive behavior poses a problem in self-control, particularly if it typifies excessive drug-taking and other unwanted behavioral exaggerations. Self-control leads to harmony and the avoidance of excesses. Clinical psychologists have been concerned with problems of excessive aggression, eating, smoking, alcohol-drinking, drug-hustling and drug-taking. If the generation of excessive adjuctive behavior described is related to situations producing drug abuse in humans, then certain conditions should hold in order for the relation to be at all plausible.
