... 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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...Preface The preface provides a brief history of how the project represented in this book started and has evolved over time. It notes the main contributions the book makes to the literature on addiction. It also notes that the book is intended both as a historical analysis of addiction science...

... is fundamentally focused on briefly describing how later chapters serve to dissolve various antinomies that have long limited research not only in the social sciences of addiction but throughout the addiction sciences more generally. addiction science addiction theory history of addiction ...

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... alternatives to the troubled attempts at universality and value neutrality now fettering debates in mainstream addiction science. neurology of addiction liberal theory of addiction addiction as enslavement history of addiction ...

... Chapter 1 provides a critical survey of sociological research on addiction. It begins with the seminal research of Alfred Lindesmith on heroin addiction and then proceeds through discussions of functionalist contributions, research that exemplifies what David Matza called the “appreciative” turn...

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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...

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