PHL 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 30: Diagnostic And Statistical Manual Of Mental Disorders, Chemical Substance, Narcotics Anonymous
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Addiction in the us approximately 23 million people were categorized as needing treatment. " only. On a substantive model there are certain values that the autonomous person would never. A procedural model is content neutral. What matters is the process by which she makes those decisions. Ability to live the life one selects for oneself. Procedural autonomy choose thy are contrary to her autonomy. Some popular accounts are more appealing than others. Drug dependence = brain disease indicated by presence of 3 or more of 7 patterns. Addiction is a brain state or function caused by an adaptation from drug use. Addiction = uncontrollable compulsion to seen and use drugs . Addicts suffer from an impairment of their decision making process, even if it is not. Addiction is an illness of self and an allergy to a drug such that the addict is. The addict is a corrupt and irrational person. Prefers pleasure over all else and is reckless and irresponsible.