Addiction Neuroethics: The Promises and Perils of Neuroscience Research on Addiction

Essential reading for academics, clinicians, researchers, and policy-makers in the fields of addiction, mental health, and public policy.

Addiction is a significant health and social problem and one of the largest preventable causes of disease globally. Neuroscience promises to revolutionise our ability to treat addiction, lead to recognition of addiction as a 'real' disorder in need of medical treatment and thereby reduce stigma and discrimination. However, neuroscience raises numerous social and ethical challenges:

• If addicted individuals are suffering from a brain disease that drives them to drug use, should we mandate treatment?
• Does addiction impair an individual's ability to consent to research or treatment?
• How will neuroscience affect social policies towards drug use?

This book addresses these challenges by examining ethical implications of emerging neurobiological treatments, including: novel psychopharmacology, neurosurgery, drug vaccines to prevent relapse, and genetic screening to identify individuals who are vulnerable to addiction.

Features include:

• Presents the ethical, social and policy challenges influencing the use of new treatments for addiction
• Critically examines the current views on whether addicted individuals have control over their drug use
• Pragmatic treatment guidance allows readers to easily put the theory into practice

Platform:

OvidSP

Publisher:

Cambridge University Press

Product Type:

Book

Author:

Carter, Adrian; Hall, Wayne

ISBN:

978-1-10-700324-8

Specialty:

• Psychiatry

Language:

English

Edition:

1st

Pages:

364

Publication Year:

2012