... The appendix presents a commentary by John F. Galliher on chapter 3, published in the same journal in which that chapter originally appeared, and a reply by the author to that commentary. Galliher and the author reflect on Lindesmith’s theory of addiction, putting on exhibit the dialogical...

... The evolution of Alfred Lindesmith’s classic theory of addiction is analyzed as a product of the particular intellectual currents and controversies in and for which it was developed. These include the conflicts that pitted qualitative against quantitative sociology; the fledgling discipline...

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... in the sociology of deviance, rational choice theories, and social constructionist approaches. It is confined to research on addiction in its original meaning as putative enslavement to a substance or activity rather than merely deviant or disapproved activity more broadly. However, there is a ubiquitous...

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... Chapter 4 demonstrates and explains endogenous accounts of an ecology of addiction in drug abuse treatment discourse. These accounts posit a space “out there” marked by its degradation, dirtiness, solitude, and savagery that commonly tempts those who must live there to also behave amorally...

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... Chapter 5 considers three problems that have arisen from efforts to interpret addiction as a form of akrasia and/or weakness of the will. The first problem is that this thesis too often posits the rational unity of healthy self-control. However, healthy people exhibit varying degrees of rational...