Analytic review of research study results from psychology, addiction science, and interactive sciences like neurology,
genetics, and epigenetics, implore psychology, psychiatry and addiction recovery treatment fields to enlarge their
perspective, by considering underlying causal influence. The appropriate time to re-conceptualize addiction for the
practitioner world is now! Treatment protocol must expand beyond mitigation of the symptoms and address genetic,
epigenetic and neurological causal influence. The science of Reward Deficiency Syndrome (RDS), offers a new
phenotype for addiction, providing a common rubric for all obsessive, compulsive, and addictive behavioral patterns,
and contributes understanding of the psychiatric genetics and/or causal influence of dopaminergic dysfunction in
other co-occurring mental disorders. In consideration and review of the body of scientific knowledge, to successfully
bridge the gap between science and practice, an integration of the sciences of addiction, and Reward Deficiency
Syndrome must be achieved [1].