Addiction focuses on the emergence, nature, and persistence of addictive behavior, as well
as the efforts of addicts to overcome their condition. Do addicts act of their own free will, or …

Our long-term goal is to change the conversation about addiction, replacing “Beyond a
reasonable doubt… addiction is a disease of the brain,”(NIDA 2010) to “Addicts retain the …

Reviews models and theories of addiction that deal with mechanisms and processes that go
beyond immediate observation. Five groups of theories are discussed, those that:(1) …

At the end of the decade of the brain, the study of neural mechanisms has come to dominate
the study of addiction. Whereas attention was once on somatic withdrawal symptoms and …

The United States is stuck in its drug abuse metaphors and in po-larized arguments about
them. Everyone has an opinion. One side insists that'we must control supply, the other that …

Leading addiction researchers survey the latest findings in addiction science, countering the
simplistic cultural stereotypes of the addict. The image of the addict in popular culture …

T here are purists among psychiatrists who claim that addiction must involve the self-
administration of an agent to alter the experience of self or the environment. This behavior …

The observation of the self-destructive behavior in nonhuman animals, combined with the
then recently-discovered reward circuits of the brain by J. Olds and P. Milner, conspired to …

The Myth of Addiction Page 1 Page 2 The Myth of Addiction Second Edition Page 3 This page
intentionally left blank Page 4 The Myth of Addiction Second Edition John Booth Davies …

The word 'addiction'these days is used to refer to a chronic condition where there is an
unhealthily powerful motivation to engage in a particular behaviour. This can be driven by …