Addiction Medicalization and the Philosophy of Addiction Addiction medicine has brought great benefits. But it is not without limits. Updated March 29, 2024 | Reviewed by Gary Drevitch ...

Addiction and recovery: A philosopher's view Philosophy Professor Hanna Pickard suggests that no case of addiction is exactly like another—and understanding why someone chooses to continue using drugs ...

As it happens, this was around the same moment that the field of "addiction medicine" as we now know it was born. The National Institute of Drug Abuse was founded in 1974, and the American Academy ...

What Is It Like To Be an Addict? Understanding Substance Abuse, by Owen Flanagan, Oxford University Press, 320 pages, $24.99 ...

It contains links to a number of her articles (free), a link to her 2019 co-edited volume The Routledge Handbook of the Philosophy and Science of Addiction (purchase required), and links to a handful ...

Ms. Szalavitz is a contributing Opinion writer who covers addiction and public policy. When I was arrested and charged with possession with intent to sell cocaine in 1986, I was addicted to both ...

The philosophy of MAT — a departure from the moralizing, abstinence-based rehab and 12-step programs that dominated addiction care for most of the 20th century — began to take shape in the ...

So Hopkins says her philosophy of addiction care also had to change. She sums it up in a single sentence. HOPKINS: There is no recovery if you're dead.