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Addiction : a disorder of choice / Gene M. Heyman.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Cambridge, Mass. ; London : Harvard University Press, 2009Description: ix, 200 pages : illustrations ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0674057279
  • 9780674057272
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 153.83 22
LOC classification:
  • HV5801 .H459 2010
Contents:
Responses to addiction -- The first drug epidemic -- Addiction in the first person -- Once an addict, always an addict? -- Voluntary behavior, disease, and addiction -- Addiction and choice -- Voluntary behavior: an engine for change.
Summary: "In a book sure to inspire controversy, Gene Heyman argues that conventional wisdom about addiction--that it is a disease, a compulsion beyond conscious control--is wrong. Drawing on psychiatric epidemiolioral economics, Heyman makes a powerful case that addiction is voluntary."--P. [4] of cover.
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Book North Campus North Campus Main Collection 153.83 HEY (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available A480896B

Originally published in hardcover: 2009. Reprinted in paperback, 2010.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 175-196) and index.

Responses to addiction -- The first drug epidemic -- Addiction in the first person -- Once an addict, always an addict? -- Voluntary behavior, disease, and addiction -- Addiction and choice -- Voluntary behavior: an engine for change.

"In a book sure to inspire controversy, Gene Heyman argues that conventional wisdom about addiction--that it is a disease, a compulsion beyond conscious control--is wrong. Drawing on psychiatric epidemiolioral economics, Heyman makes a powerful case that addiction is voluntary."--P. [4] of cover.

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