TY  - BOOK
AU  - Heyman, Gene M.
TI  - Addiction: a disorder of choice 
SN  - 9780674057272
U1  - 616.86001 
PY  - 2009///
CY  - Cambridge, MA, London, UK
PB  - Cambridge University Press
KW  - Choice (psychology)
KW  - Compulsive behaviour
KW  - Habit breaking
KW  - Addicts
KW  - psychology
KW  - Drug addiction
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; Responses to addiction --
The first drug epidemic --
Addiction in the first person --
Once an addict, always an addict? --
Voluntary behavior, disease, and addiction --
Addiction and choice --
Voluntary behavior : an engine for change
N2  - "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 epidemiology, addicts' autobiographies, treatment studies, and advances in behavioral economics, Heyman makes a powerful case that addiction is voluntary. He shows that drug use, like all choices, is influenced by preferences and goals. But just as there are successful dieters, there are successful ex-addicts. In fact, addiction is the psychiatric disorder with the highest rate of recovery. But what ends an addiction?" -- Book jacket
ER  -