Background: There is an increasing interest in personalised treatment based on the individual characteristics of the patient in the field of addiction care.
Aim: To summarise the present state of staging and profiling possibilities within addiction care.
Method: A literature review highlighting the current scientific findings and proposing a theoretical model.
Results: There are currently an insufficient number of studies to allow for a fully data driven model. However, research identifying biomarkers is growing and some clinically implementable findings can be put forward.
Conclusion: a personalised approach in addiction care holds promise. There is an urgent need for better and larger datasets to empirically support models aimed for clinical use.