Ethical issues in the treatment of addiction

Benjamin Capps, Adrian Carter, Yvette Van Der Eijk

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Resumen

Addiction or dependence to a psychoactive substance – or drug – is a biopsychosocial disorder. Many aspects of addiction can be clinically treated, yet this raises some important ethical issues. The health and social problems resulting from addiction are generally influenced by sociopolitical agendas and prevailing views about addiction, and therefore, we make some brief observations about how these affect the act, manner, or method of treating someone who is addicted. In this chapter, we focus on some recent developments in the treatment of addiction: pharmacological approaches, and invasive brain therapies. In addition to giving an ethical overview of these, we look more generally at the justification for coerced treatment.

Idioma originalEnglish
Título de la publicación alojadaHandbook of Neuroethics
EditorialSpringer Netherlands
Páginas1045-1064
Número de páginas20
ISBN (versión digital)9789400747074
ISBN (versión impresa)9789400747067
DOI
EstadoPublished - ene. 1 2015
Publicado de forma externa

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© Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 2015.

ASJC Scopus Subject Areas

  • General Arts and Humanities
  • General Medicine
  • General Agricultural and Biological Sciences
  • General Biochemistry,Genetics and Molecular Biology
  • General Social Sciences

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