Addiction
Can society break the cycle of dependence?
Addictive behaviour seems to be inextricably linked with reward. The behaviour that the addicted individual performs has to reward them and there need to be plenty of opportunities to perform it too. However, this also describes many of the behaviours that human beings do every day – eating, working and sleeping, for example.
This New Statesman/Pfizer supplement explores what we are currently prepared to do to address the issues of addiction – and what we may need to accept in the future if we are to make any further impact on it.
Stopping the conveyor belt to addiction Danny Kushlick
Round table: When is an addict not an addict?
