Mental States of Addiction

Rise, Jostein; Halkjelsvik, Torleif; Kovač, Velibor Bobo

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“…The mean age of the sample was 47, SD = 14; 50% were women. Results from the same survey have previously been reported in Melberg et al (2013), Rise et al (2014, 2015), but none of the present analyses have been published before. None of the studies reported in the present article required ethics approval per our institution’s guidelines and Norwegian law.…”

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Conceptualizations of Addiction and Moral Responsibility

Rise

Halkjelsvik

2019

Front. Psychol.

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The present study explored the connection between conceptualizations of addiction and lay people’s inferences about moral responsibility. In Study 1, we investigated how natural variations in people’s views of addiction were related to judgments of responsibility in a nationwide sample of Norwegian adults. In Study 2, respondents recruited from Mechanical Turk were asked to consider different conceptualizations of addiction and report on how these would affect their judgments of moral responsibility. In Study 3, we tested whether manipulating conceptualizations through textual information and through the framing of addiction in terms of states versus behavior could influence participants’ judgments of moral responsibility. We found that attributions of moral responsibility were lower when addiction was connected to diseases and disorders, such as dysfunctional processes in the brain, and greater when addiction was associated with agency and addictive behaviors. In conclusion, different conceptualizations of addiction imply different moral judgments, and conceptualizations are malleable.

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“…As an example, the participants rated the level of agreement with the statement “Addiction to Cocaine is/represents…reduced willpower”. The descriptors were based on an informal survey of the literature and reflected conceptualizations by lay people and scientists (see Rise et al, 2015).…”

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Conceptualizations of Addiction and Moral Responsibility

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Halkjelsvik

2019

Front. Psychol.

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“…"Addiction is a slippery concept of which the meaning, content, and definitions change according to cultural, political, historical, and finally scientific underpinnings" (RISE; HALKJELSVIK; KOVAČ, 2015). Based on this definition on addiction can be understood the alteration across countries about cultural and social norms on drug use, but also there are some common notions on addiction.…”

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An evaluation of intervention system for addicted children in Turkey

Certel

2016

Argum

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Drug addiction in children is an important issue in terms of the reasons for and the results of starting to use drugs as well as intervention methods. Drug addicted children need to be assessed in their own system and studies point to decreased age of addiction. Apparently, the vast majority of studies on drug addiction are based on psychiatric studies. However, it needs to be evaluated from a different perspective that takes into account the complexity and diversity of children's experiences of taking drugs and being addicted. In this study drug addiction in children and intervention system for addicted children in Turkey will be evaluated via literature review. The purpose of this paper is to understand the measures implemented towards addicted children in the light of information about Turkey's intervention system.

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‘But I’m not a doctor’: pending trust in science among laypeople discussing the brain disease model of addiction

Bogren

2019

Addiction Research & Theory

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Aim: In recent decades, the notion of addiction as a brain disease has become influential among scientists, public institutions, and addiction treatment professionals, and its popularity raises the question of how biomedical science affects public perceptions of illness. Although existing research has examined how laypeople interpret disease models of addiction, few studies address how they interpret the brain disease model as presented by the media, the version that most citizens are likely to encounter in their everyday lives. This article contributes to existing research by examining Swedish laypeople's interpretations of a news article presenting biomedical research on addiction and analyzing how trust intervenes in their interpretations. Methods: Drawing on an audience study design with qualitative interviews, the participants were asked to read and discuss a newspaper article that explained how alcohol, amphetamine, and nicotine affect the brain. Results: The analysis shows that their interpretations depended on how they perceived their own ability to assess the science portrayed in the article. The participants trust doctors and scientists but doubt their own ability to assess the science, and trust is therefore provisional or pending until this situation changes. In addition, trust requires that the participants are able to recognize and identify with the contents of the news article. Conclusion: This pattern can be understood as a way of dealing with the contradictory expectations laypeople facethey are expected to trust scientific knowledge and to evaluate knowledge claims rationally, but they do not have access to the knowledge that would, supposedly, enable them to do so.

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Mental States of Addiction

Cited by 3 publications

References 32 publications

Conceptualizations of Addiction and Moral Responsibility

Conceptualizations of Addiction and Moral Responsibility

An evaluation of intervention system for addicted children in Turkey

‘But I’m not a doctor’: pending trust in science among laypeople discussing the brain disease model of addiction

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