Addiction and Choice Rethinking the relationship

by Heather, Nick; Segal, Gabriel

• ISBN13: 9780191833427
• ISBN10: 0191833428
• Format: eBook
• Copyright: 2016-12-15
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Author Biography

Nick Heather, Emeritus Professor of Alcohol & Other Drug Studies, Northumbria University,Gabriel Segal, Professor of Philosophy, King's College, London

Nick Heather is Emeritus Professor of Alcohol & Other Drug Studies at Northumbria University. After working as a clinical psychologist in the NHS, he developed the Addictive Behaviours Research Group at the University of Dundee. In 1987 he became founding Director of the National Drug and Alcohol Research Centre at the University of New South Wales. He returned to the UK in 1994 as Consultant Clinical Psychologist at the Newcastle City Health NHS Trust and as Director of the Centre for Alcohol and Drug Studies. He took up his present position on retirement from the NHS in 2003. He has published over 500 scientific articles, books, book chapters and other publications, with an emphasis on the treatment of alcohol problems and alcohol brief interventions.

Gabriel Segal has a B.A. in Philosophy (first class honours) from University College London (1981), a B. Phil. (with overall distinction) from the University of Oxford (1983) and a PhD in Philosophy from M.I.T. (1987). He was Assistant Professor of Philosophy, University of Wisconsin-Madison (1987-89). He was Lecturer, Reader, then Professor of Philosophy at King's College, London (1989-present) and was Professor of Philosophy at the University of Reading (2012-2103). He is author (with Richard K. Larson) of Knowledge of Meaning: An Introduction to Semantic Theory MIT Press (1995); A Slim Book about Narrow Content, MIT Press (2000) and Twelve Steps to Psychological Good Health and Serenity: a Guide, Grosvenor House Publishing (2013).

Table of Contents

Section I: Introduction
1. On defining addiction, Nick Heather
Section II: PHILOSOPHICAL FOUNDATIONS
2. How do you know you have a drug problem? The role of knowledge of negative consequences in explaining drug choice in humans and rats, Hanna Pickard and Serge H. Ahmed
3. Addiction: the pleasures and perils of operant behavior, Bennett Foddy
4. Willing Addicts? Drinkers, Dandies, Druggies and other Dionysians, Owen Flanagan
5. Failures of Rationality and Self-Knowledge in Addiction, Thomas Crowther
6. Normal and Addictive Desires, David Papineau and Patrick Butlin
7. Addiction, Compulsion, and Weakness of the Will: A Dual-Process Perspective, Edmund Henden
8. Addiction as a form of akrasia, Nick Heather
SECTION III: PERSPECTIVES FROM NEUROSCIENCE
9. Compulsion and choice in addiction, Richard Holton
10. Choice in Addiction: A Neural Tug-of-War Between Impulse and Insight, Marc D. Lewis
11. Assessing drug choice in human addiction: Costs, benefits, and findings from current research paradigms, Scott J. Moeller and Rita Z. Goldstein
12. The role of the insula in goal-directed drug seeking and choice in addiction, Nasir H. Naqvi and Antoine Bechara
SECTION IV: PERSPECTIVES FROM BEHAVIORAL ECONOMICS AND COGNITIVE PSYCHOLOGY
13. Palpating the elephant: Current theories of addiction innlight of hyperbolic delay discounting, George Ainslie
14. Addiction as social choice, Howard Rachlin
15. Nonconscious motivational influences on cognitive processes in addictive behaviors, W. Miles Cox, Eric Klinger, Javad S. Fadardi
16. Self-regulation, controlled processes, and the treatment of addiction, Andrew J. Vonasch, Heather M. Maranges, and Roy F. Baumeister
SECTION V: IMPLICATIONS FOR TREATMENT, PREVENTION, AND PUBLIC HEALTH
17. The Blindfold of Addiction, Beth Burgess
18. Behavioral Economics as a Framework for Brief Motivational Interventions to Reduce Addictive Behaviors, James G. Murphy, Ashley A. Dennhardt, and Ali M. Yurasek
19. Role of Choice Biases and Choice Architecture in Behavioral Economic Strategies to Reduce Addictive Behaviors, Jalie A. Tucker, Susan D. Chandler, and JeeWon Cheong
20. How an Addict's Power of Choice is Lost and can be Regained, Gabriel M. A. Segal
SECTION VI IMPLICATIONS FOR THE PUBLIC UNDERSTANDING OF ADDICTION AND FOR LEGAL RESPONSIBILITY FOR ADDICTIVE BEHAVIOR
21. What addicts can teach us about addiction: A natural history approach, Gene M. Heyman and Verna Mims
22. How a stigmatic structure enslaves addicts, Beth Burgess
23. Addiction, Choice and Criminal Law, Stephen J. Morse
24. Ambiguous terms and false dichotomies, Gabriel M. A. Segal
25. Overview of addiction as a disorder of choice and future prospects, Nick Heather