The Alchemy of Addiction

The brain disease formulation privileges so much the neurobiological level, why find a problematic? Because it takes our eye off several other levels of explanation. Addiction is a behavior that responds to consequences. It responds to sanctions and incentives. And we know that's true just because of what I told you,. There's an enormous literature on contingency management, which is how you manipulate the incentives and sanctions to help people stop.