重新思考药物使用与成瘾

A philosopher advocates for a more humane and context-informed approach Cassandra L. Boness Philosopher and bioethicist Hanna Pickard’s What Would You Do Alone in a Cage with Nothing but Cocaine? is a brilliant and compelling contribution to the literature on addiction that has the potential to reframe the public’s understanding of drug use and addiction. Drawing on scholarship from some of the best thinkers in philosophy, psychology, neuroscience, ethics, and other fields as well as compelling personal anecdotes, Pickard proposes a new addiction paradigm that shifts away from the neurobiologically based brain disease model. In articulating this new paradigm, she also thoughtfully tackles a variety of challenging adjacent topics, such as compulsion, denial, self-medication, responsibility, and blame. …