Advanced search
Publication Cover
Addiction Research & Theory Volume 26, 2018 - Issue 4
Submit an article Journal homepage
51,389
Views
61
CrossRef citations to date
0
Altmetric
Editorial

Challenging the brain disease model of addiction: European launch of the addiction theory network

Nick HeatherDepartment of Psychology, Faculty of Health & Life Sciences, Northumbria University, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK; Correspondence[email protected]
,
David BestDepartment of Law & Criminology, Sheffield Hallam University, Sheffield, UK;
,
Anna KawalekDepartment of Law & Criminology, Sheffield Hallam University, Sheffield, UK;
,
Matt FieldDepartment of Psychological Sciences, University of Liverpool and the UK Centre for Tobacco and Alcohol Studies, Liverpool, UK;
,
Marc LewisDepartment of Social Development (Emeritus), Radboud University, Nijmegen, The Netherlands;
,
Frederick RotgersJohn Jay College of Criminal Justice, New York, USA;
,
Reinout W. WiersAddiction Development & Psychopathology (ADAPT)-Lab, ABC & Yield Research Priority Areas, Department of Psychology, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands;
&
Derek HeimDepartment of Psychology, Edgehill University, Ormskirk, UK
 show all
Pages 249-255 | Published online: 10 Nov 2017

Citations (61)

Keep up to date with the latest research on this topic with citation updates for this article.

Subscribe to citation updates

Read on this site (8)

Doris Ochterbeck, Jennifer Frense & Sarah Forberger. (2023) International addiction researchers’ perspectives on the needs of persons with addictions, the use of neuroscientific research for prevention and treatment, and future foci in addictions research. Addiction Research & Theory 31:6, pages 395-404.
Read now
Cassandra L. Boness, Victoria R. Votaw, Meredith W. Francis, Ashley L. Watts, Sarah H. Sperry, Christopher S. Kleva, Linda Nellis, Yoanna McDowell, Antoine B. Douaihy, Kenneth J. Sher & Katie Witkiewitz. (2023) Alcohol use disorder conceptualizations and diagnoses reflect their sociopolitical context. Addiction Research & Theory 31:5, pages 307-312.
Read now
James Morris, Cassandra L. Boness & Katie Witkiewitz. (2023) Should we promote alcohol problems as a continuum? Implications for policy and practice. Drugs: Education, Prevention and Policy 0:0, pages 1-11.
Read now
Gareth Davey, Anna Waldstein & Xiang Zhao. (2022) God forbid! Rethinking substance use, religion, and spirituality. Addiction Research & Theory 30:5, pages 311-313.
Read now
René C. Milet, Teresa López-Castro, Amy Leibowitz, Kevin McGirr & Sheila P. Vakharia. (2021) Defiant hospitality: a grounded theory study of harm reduction psychotherapy. Addiction Research & Theory 29:6, pages 445-453.
Read now
Ninive von Greiff & Lisa Skogens. (2021) Recovery and identity: a five-year follow-up of persons treated in 12-step-related programs. Drugs: Education, Prevention and Policy 28:5, pages 465-474.
Read now
Maike Klein. (2021) Relapse into opiate and crack cocaine misuse: a scoping review. Addiction Research & Theory 29:2, pages 129-147.
Read now
Alexandra Bogren. (2019) ‘But I’m not a doctor’: pending trust in science among laypeople discussing the brain disease model of addiction. Addiction Research & Theory 27:4, pages 337-346.
Read now

Articles from other publishers (53)

James Morris, Cassandra L. Boness & Robyn Burton. (2023) (Mis)understanding alcohol use disorder: Making the case for a public health first approach. Drug and Alcohol Dependence 253, pages 111019.
Crossref
Cassandra L. Boness, Kanak Kataria & James Morris. (2023) Should we embrace the term ‘preaddiction’?. Neuropsychopharmacology.
Crossref
Doris Ochterbeck, Jennifer Frense & Sarah Forberger. (2023) A survey of international addiction researchers’ views on implications of brain-based explanations of addiction and the responsibility of affected persons. Nordic Studies on Alcohol and Drugs.
Crossref
Nicola Chinchella & Inês Hipólito. (2023) Substance addiction: cure or care?. Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences.
Crossref
Doris Ochterbeck & Sarah Forberger. (2022) Is a brain‐based understanding of addiction predominant? An assessment of addiction researchers' conceptions of addiction and their evaluation of brain‐based explanations. Drug and Alcohol Review 41:7, pages 1630-1641.
Crossref
Leonardo Pimpini, Sarah Kochs, Sieske Franssen, Job van den Hurk, Giancarlo Valente, Alard Roebroeck, Anita Jansen & Anne Roefs. (2022) More complex than you might think: Neural representations of food reward value in obesity. Appetite 178, pages 106164.
Crossref
Thomas F. Martinelli, Freya Vander Laenen, Gera E. Nagelhout & Dike H. van de Mheen. (2022) Addiction and Recovery in Dutch Governmental and Practice-Level Drug Policy: What’s the Problem Represented to be?. Journal of Drug Issues 52:4, pages 547-567.
Crossref
Benjamin C. Gibson, Eric D. Claus, Jay Sanguinetti, Katie Witkiewitz & Vincent P. Clark. (2022) A review of functional brain differences predicting relapse in substance use disorder: Actionable targets for new methods of noninvasive brain stimulation. Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews 141, pages 104821.
Crossref
Reinout W. Wiers & Raoul P.P.P. Grasman. (2022) Editorial special issue addictive behaviors, networks, complexity and addictive behaviors. Addictive Behaviors 132, pages 107369.
Crossref
George B. Richardson & Nathan McGee. (2022) Extending the two-component model of delusion to substance use disorder etiology and recovery. New Ideas in Psychology 66, pages 100935.
Crossref
Sacha Parada, Eve Legrand, Elsa Taschini, Xavier Laqueille & Jean-François Verlhiac. (2022) Dweck’s Mindset Theory Applied to Addictions: a Scoping Review. Current Addiction Reports 9:3, pages 133-150.
Crossref
Rahul (Tony) Rao. (2022) Editorial: Dual diagnosis – what’s in a name?. Advances in Dual Diagnosis 15:3, pages 149-151.
Crossref
Tom Platteau, Eric Florence & John B. F. de Wit. (2022) Self-Control as Conceptual Framework to Understand and Support People Who Use Drugs During Sex. Frontiers in Public Health 10.
Crossref
Anne K. LieHelena HansenDavid HerzbergAlex MoldMarie Jauffret-RoustideIsa DussaugeSamuel K. RobertsJeremy GreeneNancy Campbell. (2022) The Harms of Constructing Addiction as a Chronic, Relapsing Brain Disease. American Journal of Public Health 112:S2, pages S104-S108.
Crossref
Nancy Ross, Catrina Brown & Marjorie Johnstone. (2022) Dismantling Addiction Services: Neoliberal, Biomedical and Degendered Constraints on Social Work Practice. International Journal of Mental Health and Addiction.
Crossref
Rebecca B. Naumann, Isabella Guynn, Hannah Margaret Clare & Kristen Hassmiller Lich. (2022) Insights from system dynamics applications in addiction research: A scoping review. Drug and Alcohol Dependence 231, pages 109237.
Crossref
Matilda Hellman, Michael Egerer, Janne Stoneham, Sarah Forberger, Vilja Männistö-Inkinen, Doris Ochterbeck & Samantha RundleMatilda Hellman, Michael Egerer, Janne Stoneham, Sarah Forberger, Vilja Männistö-Inkinen, Doris Ochterbeck & Samantha Rundle. 2022. Addiction and the Brain. Addiction and the Brain 161 184 .
Matilda Hellman, Michael Egerer, Janne Stoneham, Sarah Forberger, Vilja Männistö-Inkinen, Doris Ochterbeck & Samantha RundleMatilda Hellman, Michael Egerer, Janne Stoneham, Sarah Forberger, Vilja Männistö-Inkinen, Doris Ochterbeck & Samantha Rundle. 2022. Addiction and the Brain. Addiction and the Brain 135 160 .
Matilda Hellman, Michael Egerer, Janne Stoneham, Sarah Forberger, Vilja Männistö-Inkinen, Doris Ochterbeck & Samantha RundleMatilda Hellman, Michael Egerer, Janne Stoneham, Sarah Forberger, Vilja Männistö-Inkinen, Doris Ochterbeck & Samantha Rundle. 2022. Addiction and the Brain. Addiction and the Brain 73 101 .
Matilda Hellman, Michael Egerer, Janne Stoneham, Sarah Forberger, Vilja Männistö-Inkinen, Doris Ochterbeck & Samantha RundleMatilda Hellman, Michael Egerer, Janne Stoneham, Sarah Forberger, Vilja Männistö-Inkinen, Doris Ochterbeck & Samantha Rundle. 2022. Addiction and the Brain. Addiction and the Brain 15 43 .
Umberto Nizzoli. 2022. Hidden and Lesser-known Disordered Eating Behaviors in Medical and Psychiatric Conditions. Hidden and Lesser-known Disordered Eating Behaviors in Medical and Psychiatric Conditions 49 62 .
Magdalena Harris & Nicole Luongo. (2021) “Nothing about us, without us”: Negotiating the personal and professional as activists and academics who use drugs. International Journal of Drug Policy 98, pages 103533.
Crossref
Paula Hall. (2021) The moral maze of sex & porn addiction. Addictive Behaviors 123, pages 107054.
Crossref
Katie Witkiewitz & Jalie A. Tucker. 2021. Dynamic Pathways to Recovery from Alcohol Use Disorder. Dynamic Pathways to Recovery from Alcohol Use Disorder 415 426 .
. 2021. Dynamic Pathways to Recovery from Alcohol Use Disorder. Dynamic Pathways to Recovery from Alcohol Use Disorder 413 426 .
Markus Heilig, James MacKillop, Diana Martinez, Jürgen Rehm, Lorenzo Leggio & Louk J. M. J. Vanderschuren. (2021) Addiction as a brain disease revised: why it still matters, and the need for consilience. Neuropsychopharmacology 46:10, pages 1715-1723.
Crossref
Matilda Hellman. (2021) Understanding addiction: The shift from epistemology to ontology. Behavioural Brain Research 412, pages 113416.
Crossref
Samantha M. Rundle, John A. Cunningham & Christian S. Hendershot. (2021) Implications of addiction diagnosis and addiction beliefs for public stigma: A cross‐national experimental study. Drug and Alcohol Review 40:5, pages 842-846.
Crossref
John F. Kelly, M. Claire Greene & Alexandra Abry. (2020) A US national randomized study to guide how best to reduce stigma when describing drug‐related impairment in practice and policy. Addiction 116:7, pages 1757-1767.
Crossref
Mats Ekendahl & Patrik Karlsson. (2021) Multiple Logics: How Staff in Relapse Prevention Interpellate People With Substance Use Problems. Contemporary Drug Problems 48:2, pages 99-113.
Crossref
Elena Nikolaeva, Polina Ivashina, Evgeniy Berezhnoy & Inna Kalabina. (2021) Specificity of working memory mechanisms in individuals. E3S Web of Conferences 273, pages 10019.
Crossref
Reinout W. Wiers & Paul Verschure. (2021) Curing the broken brain model of addiction: Neurorehabilitation from a systems perspective. Addictive Behaviors 112, pages 106602.
Crossref
Abigail Rose & Andrew Jones. 2021. The Handbook of Alcohol Use. The Handbook of Alcohol Use 107 140 .
Nick Heather. 2021. The Handbook of Alcohol Use. The Handbook of Alcohol Use 583 604 .
Nevriye A. YesilNevriye A. Yesil. 2021. Drogen haben kurze Beine. Drogen haben kurze Beine 175 186 .
Tanya Mudry. 2020. The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Critical Perspectives on Mental Health. The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Critical Perspectives on Mental Health 1 13 .
Yang Liu, Wery P. M. van den Wildenberg, Gorka Fraga González, Davide Rigoni, Marcel Brass, Reinout W. Wiers & K. Richard Ridderinkhof. (2020) “Free won’t” after a beer or two: chronic and acute effects of alcohol on neural and behavioral indices of intentional inhibition. BMC Psychology 8:1.
Crossref
Anthony Barnett, Kerry O'Brien, Wayne Hall & Adrian Carter. (2020) Support for the psychosocial, disease and brain disease models of addiction: A survey of treatment providers' attitudes in Australia, the UK, and U.S.. Journal of Substance Abuse Treatment 115, pages 108033.
Crossref
Janet K. Otachi, Sarret Seng & Chizimuzo T. C. Okoli. (2020) Factors associated with tobacco cessation attempts among inpatients in a psychiatric hospital. Journal of Smoking Cessation 15:2, pages 84-93.
Crossref
Anthony I. Barnett, Martyn Pickersgill, Ella Dilkes-Frayne & Adrian Carter. (2020) Neural imaginaries at work: Exploring Australian addiction treatment providers’ selective representations of the brain in clinical practice. Social Science & Medicine 255, pages 112977.
Crossref
Phoebus Zafiridis. (2020) The Daytop crisis and its impact on the global Therapeutic Community movement. Therapeutic Communities: The International Journal of Therapeutic Communities 41:1, pages 25-35.
Crossref
Samuel McLean & Nikolas Rose. (2021) Drug overdose deaths, addiction neuroscience and the challenges of translation. Wellcome Open Research 5, pages 215.
Crossref
Véronique Deroche‐Gamonet. (2019) The relevance of animal models of addiction. Addiction 115:1, pages 16-17.
Crossref
Jérôme Blondé & Juan M. Falomir-Pichastor. (2020) Accounting for the Consequences of Tobacco Dependence on Cravings, Self-efficacy, and Motivation to Quit: Consideration of Identity Concerns. The Spanish Journal of Psychology 23.
Crossref
Frances Thirlway. (2019) Nicotine addiction as a moral problem: Barriers to e-cigarette use for smoking cessation in two working-class areas in Northern England. Social Science & Medicine 238, pages 112498.
Crossref
Jostein Rise & Torleif Halkjelsvik. (2019) Conceptualizations of Addiction and Moral Responsibility. Frontiers in Psychology 10.
Crossref
John F. Kelly. (2018) E. M. Jellinek's Disease Concept of Alcoholism. Addiction 114:3, pages 555-559.
Crossref
Matt Field, Nick Heather & Reinout W. Wiers. (2019) Indeed, not really a brain disorder: Implications for reductionist accounts of addiction. Behavioral and Brain Sciences 42.
Crossref
Maarten Merkx & Reinout Wiers. 2019. Cognitieve therapie. Cognitieve therapie 309 334 .
Jaakko Kuorikoski & Susanne Uusitalo. (2018) Re-socializing the Vulnerable Brain: Building an Ethically Sustainable Brain Disease Model of Addiction. Frontiers in Sociology 3.
Crossref
Anis Sfendla, Dina Lemrani, Britt Hedman Ahlström, Meftaha Senhaji & Nóra Kerekes. (2018) Risk and protective factors for drug dependence in two Moroccan high-risk male populations. PeerJ 6, pages e5930.
Crossref
James M. Clay & Matthew O. Parker. (2018) The role of stress-reactivity, stress-recovery and risky decision-making in psychosocial stress-induced alcohol consumption in social drinkers. Psychopharmacology 235:11, pages 3243-3257.
Crossref
Marc Lewis. (2018) Brain Change in Addiction as Learning, Not Disease. New England Journal of Medicine 379:16, pages 1551-1560.
Crossref

Reprints and Corporate Permissions

Please note: Selecting permissions does not provide access to the full text of the article, please see our help page How do I view content?

To request a reprint or corporate permissions for this article, please click on the relevant link below:

Order Reprints Request Corporate Permissions

Academic Permissions

Please note: Selecting permissions does not provide access to the full text of the article, please see our help page How do I view content?

Obtain permissions instantly via Rightslink by clicking on the button below:

Request Academic Permissions

If you are unable to obtain permissions via Rightslink, please complete and submit this Permissions form. For more information, please visit our Permissions help page.

Related research

People also read lists articles that other readers of this article have read.

Recommended articles lists articles that we recommend and is powered by our AI driven recommendation engine.

Cited by lists all citing articles based on Crossref citations.
Articles with the Crossref icon will open in a new tab.