BDMA Alternatives
Chapter 42 Looping processes in the development of and desistance from addictive behaviors

Abstract Traditionally each branch of science has developed their theories of addiction within their fortresses. The integration of research results has, therefore, remained meagre, causing fragmentation and confusion about this concept and the leading models explaining it. This chapter aims to increase cross-disciplinary integration in this area by focusing on the loopings within and between […]

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BDMA Alternatives
Chapter 43 Recovery and identity: A socially-focussed challenge to brain disease models

Abstract This chapter is a socially focused challenge to the brain disease model of addiction. By exploring the cessation of substance use and pathways to recovery we are able to offer an understanding which is both empirically supported and both accessible to and understood by the wider population. We argue that the brain disease model […]

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BDMA Alternatives
Chapter 44 Replacing the BDMA: A paradigm shift in the field of addiction

Abstract Is addiction a maladaptive choice or an involuntary compulsion, or some amalgam of the two? This central “puzzle of addiction” has not been solved, despite intensive scientific investigation for over a century and serious consideration by philosophers that began in ancient times. Currently, the dominant Brain Disease Model of Addiction (BDMA) anchors addiction theory […]

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