Addiction
Subtitle: a disorder of choice
By: Gene M. Heyman
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Cambridge, Mass; London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 200
ISBN-13: 9780674057272
Subjects: Compulsive behavior; Habit breaking; Psychology; Drug addiction; Choice (Psychology); Addicts
Description: "In a book sure to inspire controversy, Gene Heyman argues that conventional wisdom about addiction--that it is a disease, a compulsion beyond conscious control--is wrong. Drawing on psychiatric epidemiolioral economics, Heyman makes a powerful case that addiction is voluntary."--P. [4] of cover.
Notes: Originally published in hardcover: 2009.  Reprinted in paperback, 2010

Includes bibliographical references (p.175-196) and index.
Table of contents: title: Responses to addiction; title: The first drug epidemic; title: Addiction in the first person; title: Once an addict, always an addict?; title: Voluntary behavior, disease, and addiction; title: Addiction and choice; title: Voluntary behavior: an engine for change.