Evaluating the brain disease model of addiction /

Evaluating the brain disease model of addiction / / edited by Nick Heather [and three others].

This ground-breaking book advances the fundamental debate about the nature of addiction. As well as presenting the case for seeing addiction as a brain disease, it brings together all the most cogent and penetrating critiques of the brain disease model of addiction (BDMA) and the main grounds for be...

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TeilnehmendeR:
Heather, Nick,
Place / Publishing House:Abingdon, Oxon : : Routledge,, 2022.
Year of Publication:2022
Language:English
Physical Description:1 online resource (556 pages)
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Table of Contents:
  • Section I For the Brain Disease Model of Addiction
  • 1. Introduction to Section I
  • 2. Addiction is a brain disease, and it matters
  • 3. Neurobiologic advances from the brain disease model of addiction
  • 4. Time to connect: bringing social context into addiction neuroscience
  • 5. Drug addiction: updating actions to habits to compulsions ten years on
  • 6. Is addiction a brain disease? The incentive-sensitization view
  • 7. Addiction is a brain disease (but does it matter?)
  • Section II Against the Brain Disease Model of Addiction
  • 8. Introduction to Section II
  • 9. Giving the neurobiology of addiction no more than its due
  • 10. The brain disease model of addiction: is it supported by the evidence and has it delivered on its promises?
  • 11. Brain disease model of addiction: why is it so controversial?
  • 12. Brain disease model of addiction: misplaced priorities?
  • 13. Addiction and the brain-disease fallacy
  • 14. Recovery is possible: overcoming ‘addiction’ and its rescue hypotheses
  • 15. Superpower rivalry, the American Grand Narrative, and the BDMA
  • 16. My brain disease made me do it: bioethical implications of the Brain Disease Model of Addiction
  • 17. Addiction is a human problem, but brain disease models divert attention and resources away from human-level solutions
  • 18. Before ‘rock bottom’? Problem framing effects on stigma and change among harmful drinkers
  • 19. Brain change in addiction: disease or learning? Implications for science, policy, and care
  • 20. Brains or persons? Is it coherent to ascribe psychological powers to brains?
  • 21. The persistence of addiction is better explained by socioeconomic deprivation-related factors powerfully motivating goal-directed drug choice than by automaticity, habit or compulsion theories favored by the brain disease model
  • 22. Addiction and criminal responsibility: the law’s rejection of the disease model
  • 23. One cheer for the brain-disease interpretation of addiction
  • Section III Unsure about the Brain Disease Model of Addiction
  • 24. Introduction to Section III
  • 25. In search of addiction in the brains of laboratory animals
  • 26. Addiction treatment providers’ engagements with the Brain Disease Model of Addiction
  • 27. Balancing the ethical and methodological pros and cons of the BDMA
  • 28. The making of the epistemic project of addiction in the brain
  • 29. Addiction and the meaning of disease
  • 30. The pitfalls of recycling substance-use disorder criteria to diagnose behavioral addictions
  • Section IV Alternatives to the Brain Disease Model of Addiction
  • 31. Introduction to Section IV
  • 32. Addiction is socially engineered exploitation of natural biological vulnerability
  • 33. Toward an ecological understanding of addiction
  • 34. Addiction biases choice in the mind, brain, and behavior systems: beyond the brain disease model
  • 35. Multiple enactments of the brain disease model: which model, when, for whom, and at what cost?
  • 36. The social perspective and the BDMA’s entry into the non-medical stronghold in Sweden and other Nordic countries
  • 37. Beyond the medical model: addiction as a response to trauma and stress
  • 38. Psychotherapeutic strategies to enhance motivation and cognitive control
  • 39. Addiction is not (only) in the brain: molar behavioral economic models of etiology and cessation of harmful substance use
  • 40. Understanding substance use disorders among veterans: virtues of the Multitudinous Self Model
  • 41. How an addiction ontology can unify competing conceptualizations of addiction
  • 42. Looping processes in the development of and desistance from addictive behaviors
  • 43. Recovery and identity: a socially focused challenge to brain disease models
  • 44. Replacing the BDMA: a paradigm shift in the field of addiction.

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