Includes bibliographical references (pages 180-196) and index.
CONTENTS NOTE
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Responses to addiction -- The first drug epidemic -- Addiction in the first person -- Once an addict, always an addict? -- Voluntary behavior, disease, and addiction -- Addiction and choice -- Voluntary behavior : an engine for change.
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SUMMARY OR ABSTRACT
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"In a book sure to inspire controversy, Gene Heyman argues that conventional wisdom about addiction -- that it is a disease, a compulsion beyond conscious control -- is wrong. Drawing on psychiatric epidemiology, addicts' autobiographies, treatment studies, and advances in behavioral economics, Heyman makes a powerful case that addiction is voluntary. He shows that drug use, like all choices, is influenced by preferences and goals. But just as there are successful dieters, there are successful ex-addicts. In fact, addiction is the psychiatric disorder with the highest rate of recovery. But what ends an addiction?"--Book jacket.
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JSTOR
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22573/ctvjf8mv4
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Title
Addiction.
International Standard Book Number
9780674032989
TOPICAL NAME USED AS SUBJECT
Compulsive behavior.
Drug addiction.
Choice Behavior.
Substance-Related Disorders-- psychology.
Compulsive behavior.
Drogenabhängigkeit
Drogenkonsum.
Drug addiction.
Entscheidung.
Freiwilligkeit.
HEALTH & FITNESS-- Diseases-- Nervous System (incl. Brain)