Browsing SPS - Documents by Subject "Addiction"

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    • Addiction and autonomy: Why emotional dysregulation in addiction impairs autonomy and why it matters 

      Henden, Edmund (Frontiers in Psychology;Volume 14 - 2023, Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023-02-06)
      An important philosophical issue in the study of addiction is what difference the fact that a person is addicted makes to attributions of autonomy (and responsibility) to their drug-oriented behavior. In spite of accumulating ...

    • Addiction, compulsion, and weakness of the will: A dual-process perspective 

      Henden, Edmund (Addiction and Choice. Rethinking the Relationship;, Chapter; Peer reviewed, 2016)
      How should addictive behavior be explained? In terms of neurobiological illness and compulsion, or as a choice made freely, even rationally, in the face of harmful social or psychological circumstances? Some of the ...

    • Addiction, Voluntary Choice, and Informed Consent: A Reply to Uusitalo and Broers 

      Henden, Edmund (Bioethics;, Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2015-09-30)
      In an earlier article in this journal I argued that the question of whether heroin addicts can give voluntary consent to take part in research which involves giving them a choice of free heroin does not – in contrast with ...

    • Addiction: choice or compulsion? 

      Henden, Edmund; Melberg, Hans Olav; Røgeberg, Ole Jørgen (Frontiers in Psychiatry;4(77), Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2013-08-07)
      Normative thinking about addiction has traditionally been divided between, on the one hand, a medical model which sees addiction as a disease characterized by compulsive and relapsing drug use over which the addict has ...