ASNet Defining Addiction

Update: 2012-09-16

Description

This podcast briefly discusses the various characteristics of an addiction that are often used to define this condition. It argues that the primary characteristics that usually serve to define addiction unnecessarily complicate its definition and that a concise, 25-word-or-less definition of addiction suffices. The ASNet definition focuses on a single defining attribute -- the motivational strength of the drug -- from which the other characteristics of an addiction can be easily deduced using simple cause-effect logic.

The primary learning objectives of this podcast are to:

1. Explain why our succinct definition of addiction is sufficient for most purposes, and

2. Discuss briefly some of the other characteristics of an addiction

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ASNet Primer on Psychopharmacology (part-6): Characteristics of Sensitization and its Proposed Role in Drug Addiction

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ASNet Primer on Psychopharmacology (part-7): Using Translational Research to Estimate the Period of Increased Vulnerability for Relapse to Cocaine Addiction

2012-10-1510:58

ASNet Primer on Psychopharmacology (part-8): Importance of Conditioning Effects in Psychopharmacology

2012-10-1511:19

There’s No Excuse for Overdose Deaths from Opioid-Based Medications

2012-10-0909:33

ASNet Primer on Psychopharmacology (part-4)

2012-10-0653:12

ASNet Primer on Psychopharmacology (part-3)

2012-10-0408:12

ASNet Primer on Psychopharmacology (part-2)

2012-10-0429:13

Why marijuana is unlikely to ever be approved for medical use in the United States

2012-10-0324:06

Addiction is an Equal Opportunity Affliction

2012-10-0107:41

Welcome and Introduction to the ASNet Training Series in Addiction Science

2012-09-3001:53

ASNet Primer on Psychopharmcology (part-1)

2012-09-2801:00:24

ASNet Essential Concepts for Understanding Addiction (part-2)

2012-09-2553:33

Dr. Phil's "Addiction"

2012-09-2310:23

Why Distinguishing Drug Dependence from Drug Addiction is Important

2012-09-2208:00

ASNet Essential Concepts for Understanding Addiction

2012-09-2159:39

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ASNet Einstein and the Science of Addiction

2012-09-1707:14

ASNet Commentary on New Opioid Prescribing Guidelines

2012-09-1704:51

ASNet Defining Addiction

2012-09-1611:48

ASNet Primer on Addiction

2012-09-1615:37

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ASNet Defining Addiction