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- Title
Drug Addiction: From Neuroscience to Ethics.
- Authors
Farisco, Michele; Evers, Kathinka; Changeux, Jean-Pierre
- Abstract
In the present paper, we suggest a potential new ethical analysis of addiction focusing on the relationship between aware and unaware processing in the brain. We take the case of the opioids epidemics to argue that a consideration of both aware and unaware processing provides a more comprehensive ethical framework to discuss the ethical issues raised by addiction. Finally, our hypothesis is that in addition to identified Central Nervous System's neuronal/neurochemical factors contributing to addictive dynamics, the socio-economic status plays a causal role through epigenetic processes, originating the need for additional reward in the brain. This provides a strong base for a socio-political form of responsibility for preventing and managing addiction crisis.
- Publication
Frontiers in Psychiatry, 2018, pN.PAG
- ISSN
1664-0640
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.3389/fpsyt.2018.00595