Top Research Papers on Addiction

The American Society of Addiction Medicine (ASAM, 2017) Public Policy Statement defines addiction as “a chronic disease of brain reward, motivation, memory and related circuitry [which leads to] an inability to abstained [and] impairment in behaviour control, craving [and diminished recognition of significant problems with behaviour and interpersonal relationship,”

This is a serious programmatic book intended mainly for an academic research audience. There is food for thought here, some of it quite interesting for clinicians, although there is only a glancing attention to clinical cases, programs, or approaches. The editors who commissioned these chapters (with each one also contributing one) are an unusual foursome of philosophers and economists, one of whom directs the Centre for the Study of Gambling at University of Salford, U.K. They have assembled an international array of faculty (albeit all in predominantly English-speaking countries), mainly fro...

This chapter defines addiction and looks at possible treatments.

None of these issues can be settled until the authors determine what addiction is, which is the task of this chapter.

Trusted information on the definition of addiction, why it begins, and where to get more information and help is provided.

The image of the addict in popular culture combines victimhood and moral failure; we sympathize with addicts in films and novels because of their suffering and their hard-won knowledge. And yet actual scientific knowledge about addiction tends to undermine this cultural construct. In What Is Addiction?, leading addiction researchers from neuroscience, psychology, genetics, philosophy, economics, and other fields survey the latest findings in addiction science. They discuss such questions as whether addiction is one kind of condition, or several; if addiction is neurophysiological, psychologica...

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Addiction-as-disease or addiction- as-choice may be better defined by delineating initial experimentation with addictive drugs from ongoing drug use.

Addiction Treatment Loss of Control Over Substance Use • Using more of the substance than intended • Difficulty reducing substance use • Significant time spent obtaining, using, or recovering from substance • Having cravings: strong desire to use substance Social / Occupational Problems • Not fulfilling major obligations at work, school, or home • Social problems caused by continued use of substance • Decreasing or giving up important social or occupational activities

By William L. White, MA Are alcoholism and other addictions diseases? If so, what manner of diseases are they, and how can they best be treated? If not, then how can we understand and respond to such conditions? Do we need more than one organizing concept to embrace the myriad patterns of harmful alcohol and other drug (AOD) use? What personal, professional and social consequences flow out of these different frameworks for viewing AOD-related problems?

This Article affirmatively reject the moral choice model, identifying it as an obstacle to mitigating the opioid epidemic, and offers a model of addiction that more closely tracks its complex disease etiology, while humanizing people with addiction, removing stigma, and encouraging treatment.

Substance addiction is defined as a chronic relapsing disorder characterized by (1) compulsion to seek and take a substance, (2) loss of control in limiting substance intake, and (3) the emergence of a negative emotional state (e.g. dysphoria, anxiety, irritability) reflecting a motivational withdrawal syndrome when access to the substance is prevented. Importantly, the occasional but limited use of addictive substances is clinically distinct from escalated substance use, loss of control over substance intake, and the emergence of chronic compulsive substance-seeking that characterizes addicti...

A way to explain the disease of addiction to patients is described, which could help patients and their support groups to understand the condition better.

The year has brought even more solid knowledge of the transition from substance-induced psychosis (SIP) to schizophrenia, teaching psychiatrists in acute psychiatry an important lesson on how to view SIP, and a very novel and unexpected finding regarding alcohol elimination that may change how to treat intoxications with different alcohols.

Millions of people, whose injuries required pain medications to aid in the process of healing, were over-prescribed opioids by doctors and other medical professionals.

Part of the problem with current debates over the nature of ‘addiction’ is that, despite the fact that much of the debate is carried on by psychologists, underlying assumptions of current psychological theory are rarely discussed. For example, most psychologists even nowadays tend to use the framework of ‘cognitivism’, or (occasionally) behaviourism as an approach to the subject, as though these were the only two possible approaches available. But in the last ten years, new schools of psychology have thrown new light on the increasingly sterile ‘cognitivism’ versus ‘behaviourism’ debate. Embod...

“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.

This book offers an accessible and comprehensive yet compact description of various forms of addiction, a disorder suffered by one in every 10 people in the United States, and addresses the neurobiology of addiction.

The diagnosis and treatment of addictions is examined in this chapter, with the former being more common in psychiatric settings than the latter, and the common report of purported comorbidity seen as an overestimation.

In view of advances in understanding the harmful effects of alcohol, it is necessary to adapt the perception of the risk, in order not to provoke the incomprehension in the population.