New Study Casts Doubt on Current " Despair " Models of Addiction

The recent Hari/Hart/Lewis hypothesis that addiction is not primarily metabolic or genetic, but rather the result of " despair " or " sociological conditions " or " flawed learning, " takes a major hit in a newreport appearing in The National Bureau of Economic Research. The study suggests that" changes in economic conditions account for less than one-tenth of the rise in drug and opioid-involved mortality rates. " Jason Schwartz atAddiction& Recovery News does a deep dive into the flawed thinking behind the new (old?) sociological views of addictionhere.
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