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2023 APS Annual Convention

Rethinking Drug Use and Addiction Beyond Chronic Brain Disease and Moral Failure: Alternative Perspectives

Sunday, May 28, 2023 · Washington, DC

Oral · Clinical Science

Addiction has been defined as chronic brain disease as an alternative to moral failure. Still, this dichotomy has been criticized by psychological scientists, based on epidemiology (spontaneous recovery) and neglect of social determinants. This symposium presents alternative perspectives, including biased choice, pleasure, recovery, and normative development, with implications for interventions.

Chairs & Discussants

  • Reinout WiersChair
    University of Amsterdam
  • Sher KennethDiscussant
    University of Missouri

Presentations

  1. Addiction As Biased Choice: Implications for TreatmentReinout Wiers
  2. The Impact of Recovery on Immediacy BiasWarren Bickel
  3. Addiction As Aberration from Normal Pleasure Seeking: Exaggerating Harmful Consequences of Recreational Drug Uses Has Detrimental Effects, Especially for Black People in the USCarl Hart
  4. Social and Cognitive Predictors of Drinking Trajectories from a Developmental PerspectiveKristina Jackson