Caroline Jean Acker on Bruce Alexander’s “Addiction: The Urgent Need for a Paradigm Shift”.
Caroline Jean Acker on Bruce Alexander’s “Addiction: The Urgent Need for a Paradigm Shift”.
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Subst Use Misuse. 2012 Nov; 47(13-14): 1484
Acker CJ
Mukta Sharma on Bruce K. Alexander’s “Addiction: The Urgent Need for a Paradigm Shift”.
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Subst Use Misuse. 2012 Nov; 47(13-14): 1483
Sharma M
Addiction: the urgent need for a paradigm shift.
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Subst Use Misuse. 2012 Nov; 47(13-14): 1475-82
Alexander BK
Severe addictions to drug use and to countless other habits are causing enormous harm around the globe. Massive expenditures and dedicated efforts of police, doctors, addiction therapists, and self-help groups have failed to bring the problem under control, although many individual addicts have been helped. What can society do when our best efforts continue to fail and a menacing problem continues to grow? This paper proposes that a major paradigm shift is required. The currently dominant paradigm assumes that addiction is either an individual disease or an individual moral breach. But this individually oriented paradigm has failed. Instead, addiction needs to be understood socially, as a way that large numbers of people adapt to the breakdown of psychologically sustaining culture under the global influence of free-market society. This new paradigm is based on the social thinking of Karl Polanyi and other social scientists rather than on the individual thinking of neuroscientists, doctors, or psychologists.
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Just call it “treatment”.
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Addict Sci Clin Pract. 2012; 7(1): 10
Friedmann PD, Schwartz RP
ABSTRACT: Although many in the addiction treatment field use the term “medication-assisted treatment” to describe a combination of pharmacotherapy and counseling to address substance dependence, research has demonstrated that opioid agonist treatment alone is effective in patients with opioid dependence, regardless of whether they receive counseling. The time has come to call pharmacotherapy for such patients just “treatment”. An explicit acknowledgment that medication is an essential first-line component in the successful management of opioid dependence.
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