Addiction

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“Addiction” has been a really intriguing conceptual anchor for a deep dive into the history of how sociologists and economists have thought about it. This chapter was written for a volume edited by Philippe Fontaine and Jefferson Pooley, and titled Society On the Edge: Social Science and Public Policy in the Postwar United States. The book was organized around a novel idea—the editors went through *all* Social Problems textbooks produced from the beginning of this way of organizing the field.