The Routledge Handbook of Philosophy and Science of Addiction

601 Pages·2019·8.75 MB·English

by  Hanna Pickard

THE ROUTLEDGE HANDBOOK OF
PHILOSOPHY AND SCIENCE OF
ADDICTION
The problem of addiction is one of the major challenges and controversies confronting medicine
and society. It also poses important and complex philosophical and scientific problems. What is
addiction? Why does it occur? And how should we respond to it, as individuals and as a society?
The Routledge Handbook of Philosophy and Science of Addiction is an outstanding reference source
to the key topics, problems and debates in this exciting subject. It spans several disciplines and is
the first collection of its kind. Organized into three clear parts, the forty-five chapters by a team
of international contributors examine key areas, including:
• the meaning of addiction to individuals
• conceptions of addiction
• varieties and taxonomies of addiction
• methods and models of addiction
• evolution and addiction
• history, sociology and anthropology
• population distribution and epidemiology
• developmental processes
• vulnerabilities and resilience
• psychological and neural mechanisms
• prevention, treatment and spontaneous recovery
• public health and the ethics of care
• social justice, law and policy.
Essential reading for students and researchers in addiction research and in philosophy, particu-
larly the philosophy of mind and psychology and ethics, The Routledge Handbook of Philosophy
and Science of Addiction will also be of great interest to those in related fields, such as medicine,
mental health, social work, and social policy.
Hanna Pickard is Professor in Philosophy of Psychology at the University of Birmingham,
UK, and a Visiting Research Scholar in the Program of Cognitive Science, Princeton University,
2017–19.
Serge H. Ahmed is a Research Director at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique
(CNRS). He currently works at the Centre Broca Nouvelle-Aquitaine, Bordeaux Neurocampus,
Université de Bordeaux, France.
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THE ROUTLEDGE
HANDBOOK OF PHILOSOPHY
AND SCIENCE OF ADDICTION
Edited by Hanna Pickard and
Serge H. Ahmed
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Title: The Routledge handbook of philosophy and science of addiction /
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Description: 1 [edition]. | New York : Routledge, 2018. | Series:
Routledge handbooks in philosophy | Includes bibliographical
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CONTENTS
Notes on contributors x
Acknowledgements xx
Introduction 1
Hanna Pickard and Serge H. Ahmed
PART I
What is addiction? 5
SECTION A
Conceptions of addiction 7
1 The puzzle of addiction 9
Hanna Pickard
2 Deriving addiction: an analysis based on three elementary
features of making choices 23
Gene M. Heyman
3 The picoeconomics of addiction 34
George Ainslie
4 Addiction as a disorder of self-control 45
Edmund Henden
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Contents
5 Addiction: the belief oscillation hypothesis 54
Neil Levy
6 Addiction and moral psychology 63
Chandra Sripada and Peter Railton
7 Identity and addiction 77
Owen Flanagan
8 The harmful dysfunction analysis of addiction: normal brains
and abnormal states of mind 90
Jerome C. Wakefield
9 The evolutionary significance of drug toxicity over reward 102
Edward H. Hagen and Roger J. Sullivan
SECTION B
Varieties, taxonomies, and models of addiction 121
10 Defining addiction: a pragmatic perspective 123
Walter Sinnott-Armstrong and Jesse S. Summers
11 Diagnosis of addictions 132
Marc Auriacombe, Fuschia Serre, Cécile Denis, and Mélina Fatséas
12 Reconsidering addiction as a syndrome: one disorder with
multiple expressions 145
Paige M. Shaffer and Howard J. Shaffer
13 Developing general models and theories of addiction 160
Robert West, Simon Christmas, Janna Hastings, and Susan Michie
14 Gambling disorder 173
Seth W. Whiting, Rani A. Hoff, and Marc N. Potenza
15 Food addiction 182
Ashley Gearhardt, Michelle Joyner, and Erica Schulte
16 “A walk on the wild side” of addiction: the history and
significance of animal models 192
Serge H. Ahmed
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Contents
PART II
Explaining addiction: culture, pathways, mechanisms 205
SECTION A
Anthropological, historical, and socio-psychological perspectives 207
17 Power and addiction 209
Jim Orford
18 Sociology of addiction 220
Richard Hammersley
19 The fuzzy boundaries of illegal drug markets and why they matter 229
Lee D. Hoffer
20 Multiple commitments: heterogeneous histories of neuroscientific
addiction research 240
Nancy D. Campbell
SECTION B
Developmental processes, vulnerabilities, and resilience 251
21 The epidemiological approach: an overview of methods and models 253
James C. Anthony
22 A genetic framework for addiction 275
Philip Gorwood, Yann Le Strat, and Nicolas Ramoz
23 Choice impulsivity: a drug-modifiable personality trait 286
Annabelle M. Belcher, Carl W. Lejuez, F. Gerard Moeller,
Nora D. Volkow, and Sergi Ferré
24 Stress and addiction 299
Rajita Sinha
SECTION C
Psychological and neural mechanisms 313
25 Mechanistic models for understanding addiction as a
behavioural disorder 315
Dominic Murphy and Gemma Lucy Smart
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Contents
26 Controlled and automatic learning processes in addiction 325
Lee Hogarth
27 Decision-making dysfunctions in addiction 339
Antonio Verdejo-Garcia
28 The current status of the incentive sensitization theory
of addiction 351
Mike J.F. Robinson, Terry E. Robinson, and Kent C. Berridge
29 Resting-state and structural brain connectivity in individuals
with stimulant addiction: a systematic review 362
Anna Zilverstand, Rafael O’Halloran, and Rita Z. Goldstein
30 Imaging dopamine signaling in addiction 380
Diana Martinez and Felipe Castillo
31 The neurobiology of placebo effects 392
Elisa Frisaldi, Diletta Barbiani, and Fabrizio Benedetti
32 Brain mechanisms and the disease model of addiction: is it the
whole story of the addicted self? A philosophical-
skeptical perspective 401
Şerife Tekin
PART III
Consequences, responses, and the meaning of addiction 411
SECTION A
Listening and relating to addicts 413
33 The Outcasts Project: humanizing heroin users through
documentary photography and photo-elicitation 415
Aaron Goodman
34 Our stories, our knowledge: the importance of addicts’
epistemic authority in treatment 431
Peg O’Connor
35 Reactive attitudes, relationships, and addiction 440
Jeanette Kennett, Doug McConnell, and Anke Snoek
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Contents
SECTION B
Prevention, treatment, and spontaneous recovery 453
36 Contingency management approaches 455
Kristyn Zajac, Sheila M. Alessi, and Nancy M. Petry
37 Twelve-step fellowship and recovery from addiction 464
John F. Kelly and Julie V. Cristello
38 Opioid substitution treatment and harm minimization approaches 478
Mark K. Greenwald
39 Self-change: genesis and functions of a concept 490
Harald Klingemann and Justyna I. Klingemann
SECTION C
Ethics, law, and policy 499
40 Addiction: a structural problem of modern global society 501
Bruce K. Alexander
41 Don’t be fooled by the euphemistic language attesting to a
gentler war on drugs 511
Carl L. Hart
42 Drug legalization and public health: general issues, and the
case of cannabis 518
Robin Room
43 Addiction and drug (de)criminalization 531
Douglas Husak
44 Criminal law and addiction 540
Stephen J. Morse
45 Addiction and mandatory treatment 554
Steve Matthews
Index 564
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