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- Title
The instrumental rationality of addiction.
- Authors
Pickard, Hanna
- Abstract
The claim that non-addictive drug use is instrumental must be distinguished from the claim that its desired ends are evolutionarily adaptive or easy to comprehend. Use can be instrumental without being adaptive or comprehensible. This clarification, together with additional data, suggests that Müller & Schumann's (M&S's) instrumental framework may explain addictive, as well as non-addictive consumption.
- Subjects
DRUG addiction; DRUG utilization; ADAPTABILITY (Personality); DRUG abuse; MEDICAL care use; ADAPTATION level (Psychology); COMPREHENSION
- Publication
Behavioral & Brain Sciences, 2011, Vol 34, Issue 6, p320
- ISSN
0140-525X
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1017/S0140525X1100077X