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Nordic Studies on Alcohol and Drugs
Addiction, Agency and Affects – Philosophical Perspectives:
SusanneUusitalo1 
关键词: addiction;    disease model;    choice model;    agency;    affect;   
DOI  :  10.2478/nsad-2013-0004
学科分类:生物化学/生物物理
来源: Sage Journals
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AimsIn the recent neuroscientific research addiction has been defined as a brain disease in which the addict's brain is “hijacked”. The research indicates how the addictive cravings function in the brain's reward system. At the same time growing support has emerged to a view of addiction as a matter of choice. This viewpoint claims that those with addiction lack either willpower or the moral capacity to make the right decisions. In this article, we problematise these two models and argue that neither of them succeeds in providing successful and adequate means of tackling personal problems associated with agency and responsibility in relation to addiction.MethodsThe article uses means of social ethics and empirically informed analytical philosophy.ResultsAfter showing that the two prominent models are not sufficient in capturing the problematique of addictive behaviour, we propose a new approach called the affective choice model.ConclusionsAs the disease model and the choice model fall short, we illustrate...

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