Publications [#327006] of Owen Flanagan

Journal Articles

1. Flanagan, O (2017). Addiction Doesn’t Exist, But it is Bad for You. Neuroethics, 10(1), 91-98. [doi]
   (last updated on 2024/01/01)

   Abstract:
   There is a debate about the nature of addiction, whether it is a result of brain damage, brain dysfunction, or normal brain changes that result from habit acquisition, and about whether it is a disease. I argue that the debate about whether addiction is a disease is much ado about nothing, since all parties agree it is “unquestionably destructive.” Furthermore, the term ‘addiction’ has disappeared from recent DSM’s in favor of a spectrum of ‘abuse’ disorders. This may be a good thing indicating more nuance in typing the heterogeneous phenomena we used to call ‘addiction’.