How could one say that the differences DON'T matter? Personally, I have always thought that the concept of 'addiction' as a monolithic entity was a consequence of its medicalization; that there is such a thing as a 'disease' called 'addiction'. If instead we look at addiction as a behavior pattern, we should apply the basic principle that the same effect can have different causes.
On Oct 20, 2011, at 10:17 AM, David Epstein wrote: > On Thu, 20 Oct 2011, [email protected] went: > >> A new opinion piece has been published in the prestigious _Nature >> Reviews Neuroscience_ disputing conventional wisdom that drug >> addition is a unitary phenomenon (i.e. that all addictions work >> through the same mechanism). I don't have a clue what "hedonic >> allostasis" is, but it's clear from the abstract that they give the >> conventional view on this important issue a good pummelling. >> >> Now I could be wrong about this, but I believe that one of the >> authors of that paper, a certain David Epstein, could well be the one >> who is a long-standing member of TIPS, > > That's me! What I find amusing is that, during the editing process, > the paper ended up with a title that was more emphatic than I'd have > chosen. In fact, I originally drafted part of the title as a question > ("Do the differences matter?"), and the editors wanted something more > committal ("The differences do matter"). The parts of the paper I > wrote focused on human data, which were more ambiguous than the > lab-animal data were. > > --David Epstein > [email protected] > > --- > You are currently subscribed to tips as: [email protected]. > To unsubscribe click here: > http://fsulist.frostburg.edu/u?id=13438.3b5166ef147b143fedd04b1c4a64900b&n=T&l=tips&o=13546 > or send a blank email to > leave-13546-13438.3b5166ef147b143fedd04b1c4a649...@fsulist.frostburg.edu --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: [email protected]. To unsubscribe click here: http://fsulist.frostburg.edu/u?id=13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df5d5&n=T&l=tips&o=13547 or send a blank email to leave-13547-13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df...@fsulist.frostburg.edu
