Indeed, not really a brain disorder: Implications for reductionist accounts of addiction. (2019)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Field, Matt; Heather, Nick; Wiers, Reinout W.
• Is Part Of: Behavioral and brain sciences. Volume 42(2019)
• Publication Date: 2019
• Subjects: Psychophysiology -- Periodicals; Psychology -- Periodicals; Human behavior -- Periodicals; Animal behavior -- Periodicals; Brain -- Periodicals; 616.89142
• DOI: 10.1017/S0140525X18001024
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 0140-525X

Abstract

Abstract: Borsboom et al.'s formulation provides an opportunity for a fundamental rethink about the "brain disease model" of addiction that dominates research, treatment, policy, and lay understanding of addiction. We also demonstrate how the American opioid crisis provides a contemporary example of how "brain disease" is not moderated by the environmental context but is instead crucially dependent upon it.