Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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7512796 | International Journal of Drug Policy | 2016 | 26 Pages |
Abstract
These viewpoints shed some light on the diverse and divergent ways that people with addictions make sense of neurobiological ideas and technologies. It also describes when, and how, neurobiological explanations and the 'brain disease' model can be helpful to addicted persons. Some of the limitations of the brain disease model become apparent in the complex ways in which neurobiological explanations and labels are incorporated into lay understandings. In order to be more useful to addicted persons, neurobiological explanations should be provided as part of a more complex explanation of addiction and the brain than the BDMA offers, and should not be given a 'disease' label.
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Authors
Carla Meurk, Kylie Morphett, Adrian Carter, Megan Weier, Jayne Lucke, Wayne Hall,