Year: 2014
Type: book-chapter
Abstract: Many theories of addiction or dependence assume it to be a pathological state that is progressively caused by various factors, primarily the pharmacological properties of drugs and alcohol (Booth et al., 2010; Robbins, Ersche, & Everitt, 2008), and secondarily genetics (Enoch, Gorodetsky, Hodgkinson, Roy, & Goldman, 2011; Wei et al., 2011), psychological processes, both normal (Leventhal & Schmitz, 2006) and pathological (Mills, Teesson, Darke, & Ross, 2007; Schilling, Aseltine, & Gore, 2007), and dysfunctional socioeconomic conditions (Foster, 2000; Seddon, 2000). Addiction research strives to understand how this pathological state of dependence comes about, and how it might be prevented and treated. This article will develop an alternative theory that dependence is caused by a lack of constraints, not a combination of active causal factors.
Source: Routledge eBooks
Language: English
Subfield: Epidemiology
Field: Medicine
Domain: Health Sciences
Open Access status: bronze
OpenAlex ID: W4245832628