addiction

is a disorder of choice: Addicts choose to consume their drugs utilizing the same mechanisms of assessment and volition as nonaddicts use to choose other rewarding goods (heyman 2009).

Gene Heyman, most recently and forcefully, has argued that addiction is a disorder of choice: addicts choose to consume their drugs utilizing the same mechanisms of assessment and volition as nonaddicts use to choose other rewarding goods (Heyman 2009).

is seen wrongheadedly within the disease interpretation because doing so is 'the scientific, enlightened and humane perspective.'.

Gene Heyman, in his important Addiction: A Disorder of Choice (2009), writes that 'The idea that addiction is a disease is now the prevailing view among researchers, clinicians, and the media. In clinical texts and articles, addiction is introduced as a 'chronic illness' that should be classified with diseases like diabetes and asthma' (2009, p. 17). He writes that most clinicians now think that the 'disease interpretation' is 'the scientific, enlightened and humane perspective.'4

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