‘Choice, Compulsion, and Capacity in Addiction’ - A commentary on Charland, L. ‘Consent and Capacity in the Age of the Opioid Epidemic: The Drug Dealer’s Point of View’

TY - JOUR

T1 - ‘Choice, Compulsion, and Capacity in Addiction’ - A commentary on Charland, L. ‘Consent and Capacity in the Age of the Opioid Epidemic: The Drug Dealer’s Point of View’

AU - Gergel, Tania

PY - 2021

Y1 - 2021

N2 - Charland's article suggests that we need to think more about whether decision-making capacity is impaired in severe addiction, working from the idea that drug dealers rely on this understanding of addiction to draw in their clients. Charland argues that it is possible to make a choice without being in control (to make decisions without having decision-making capacity). I argue in support of Charland's ideas by examining the reasons supporting a medical model of addiction and its importance. (Charland article and full commentaries included)

AB - Charland's article suggests that we need to think more about whether decision-making capacity is impaired in severe addiction, working from the idea that drug dealers rely on this understanding of addiction to draw in their clients. Charland argues that it is possible to make a choice without being in control (to make decisions without having decision-making capacity). I argue in support of Charland's ideas by examining the reasons supporting a medical model of addiction and its importance. (Charland article and full commentaries included)

KW - decision-making capacity

KW - Addiction

KW - Substance abuse

KW - Autonomy

KW - Moral responsibility

KW - Psychiatry

KW - philosophy of medicine

KW - Philosophy of Law

UR - https://t.co/uHz4W606ep?amp=1

M3 - Comment/debate

VL - 27

JO - Bulletin of the Association for the Advancement of Philosophy and Psychiatry

JF - Bulletin of the Association for the Advancement of Philosophy and Psychiatry

IS - 2

ER -