Main description:

* A ground-breaking attempt to bring together in one volume all the various strands of this fundamental debate about the nature of what is called addiction. * Presents a robust evaluation of the BDMA * Neatly divided into four sections representing For; Against; Unsure; Alternative Ways of Understanding and Responding to Addiction

Contents:

General introduction; SECTION I FOR THE BRAIN DISEASE MODEL OF ADDICTION 1. Introduction to Section I; 2. Addiction is a brain disease, and it matters; 3. Neurobiologic advances from the brain disease model of addiction; 4. Time to connect: bringing social context into addiction neuroscience; 5. Drug addiction: updating actions to habits to compulsions ten years on; 6. Is addiction a brain disease? The incentive-sensitization view; 7. Addiction is a brain disease (but does it matter?); SECTION II AGAINST THE BRAIN DISEASE MODEL OF ADDICTION 8. Introduction to Section II; 9. Giving the neurobiology of addiction no more than its due; 10. The brain disease model of addiction: is it supported by the evidence and has it delivered on its promises?; 11. Brain disease model of addiction: why is it so controversial?; 12. Brain disease model of addiction: misplaced priorities?; 13. Addiction and the brain-disease fallacy; 14. Recovery is possible: overcoming 'addiction' and its rescue hypotheses; 15. Superpower rivalry, the American Grand Narrative, and the BDMA; 16. My brain disease made me do it: bioethical implications of the Brain Disease Model of Addiction; 17. Addiction is a human problem, but brain disease models divert attention and resources away from human-level solutions; 18. Before 'rock bottom'? Problem framing effects on stigma and change among harmful drinkers; 19. Brain change in addiction: disease or learning? Implications for science, policy, and care; 20. Brains or persons? Is it coherent to ascribe psychological powers to brains?; 21. The persistence of addiction is better explained by socioeconomic deprivation-related factors powerfully motivating goal-directed drug choice than by automaticity, habit or compulsion theories favored by the brain disease model; 22. Addiction and criminal responsibility: the law's rejection of the disease model; 23. One cheer for the brain-disease interpretation of addiction; SECTION III UNSURE ABOUT THE BRAIN DISEASE MODEL OF ADDICTION 24. Introduction to Section III; 25. In search of addiction in the brains of laboratory animals; 26. Addiction treatment providers' engagements with the Brain Disease Model of Addiction; 27. Balancing the ethical and methodological pros and cons of the BDMA; 28. The making of the epistemic project of addiction in the brain; 29. Addiction and the meaning of disease; 30. The pitfalls of recycling substance-use disorder criteria to diagnose behavioral addictions; SECTION IV ALTERNATIVES TO THE BRAIN DISEASE MODEL OF ADDICTION 31. Introduction to Section IV; 32. Addiction is socially engineered exploitation of natural biological vulnerability; 33. Toward an ecological understanding of addiction; 34. Addiction biases choice in the mind, brain, and behavior systems: beyond the brain disease model; 35. Multiple enactments of the brain disease model: which model, when, for whom, and at what cost?; 36. The social perspective and the BDMA's entry into the non-medical stronghold in Sweden and other Nordic countries; 37. Beyond the medical model: addiction as a response to trauma and stress; 38. Psychotherapeutic strategies to enhance motivation and cognitive control; 39. Addiction is not (only) in the brain: molar behavioral economic models of etiology and cessation of harmful substance use; 40. Understanding substance use disorders among veterans: virtues of the Multitudinous Self Model; 41. How an addiction ontology can unify competing conceptualizations of addiction; 42. Looping processes in the development of and desistance from addictive behaviors; 43. Recovery and identity: a socially focused challenge to brain disease models; 44. Replacing the BDMA: a paradigm shift in the field of addiction; Concluding comments