Drug Addiction: From Neuroscience to Ethics
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 et...
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| description | 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. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-78087a1551ca4806ae955e83d933ec6c2022-12-21T19:05:46ZengFrontiers Media S.A.Frontiers in Psychiatry1664-06402018-11-01910.3389/fpsyt.2018.00595397232Drug Addiction: From Neuroscience to EthicsMichele Farisco0Michele Farisco1Kathinka Evers2Jean-Pierre Changeux3Centre for Research Ethics and Bioethics, Uppsala University, Uppsala, SwedenScience and Society Unit, Biogem, Biology and Molecular Genetics Institute, Ariano Irpino, ItalyCentre for Research Ethics and Bioethics, Uppsala University, Uppsala, SwedenCollège de France and Institut Pasteur CNRS, Paris, FranceIn 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.https://www.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fpsyt.2018.00595/fulladdictionethics of addictionunaware processingopioids epidemicsdrugs addiction |
| spellingShingle | Michele Farisco Michele Farisco Kathinka Evers Jean-Pierre Changeux Drug Addiction: From Neuroscience to Ethics Frontiers in Psychiatry addiction ethics of addiction unaware processing opioids epidemics drugs addiction |
| title | Drug Addiction: From Neuroscience to Ethics |
| title_full | Drug Addiction: From Neuroscience to Ethics |
| title_fullStr | Drug Addiction: From Neuroscience to Ethics |
| title_full_unstemmed | Drug Addiction: From Neuroscience to Ethics |
| title_short | Drug Addiction: From Neuroscience to Ethics |
| title_sort | drug addiction from neuroscience to ethics |
| topic | addiction ethics of addiction unaware processing opioids epidemics drugs addiction |
| url | https://www.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fpsyt.2018.00595/full |
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