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ATN Webinar: Evaluating the Brain Disease Model of Addiction (BDMA)

Featuring:  Nick Heather, Matt Field, Antony C. Moss, & Sally Satel Update: Full webinar video now available at ATN Webinar Evaluating the Brain Disease Model of Addiction 3/15/2022 Meeting Recording When? 15/03/2022; 1300-1430 UK time For local time see:  https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/converter.html The event will be held via MS Teams.  Those interested in attending must contact Derek Heim at […]

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Is addiction science undergoing a paradigm shift?

By Nick Heather PhDDepartment of Psychology, Faculty of Health & Life Sciences, Northumbria University, UK In this post I assume that a radical transformation is currently occurring in addiction science and suggest the possibility that this might been seen as a Kuhnian ‘paradigm shift’. The puzzle of addiction is that people labelled as addicts persist […]

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