Addiction and the Capability to Abstain
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12569154 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Sebastian Östlund (0000-0001-7318-008X, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2023 |
| Volume | 30 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 211-228 |
| Publication date | 2023-07-03 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Res Publica. Revista de Historia de las Ideas Politicas (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1576-4184 • E-ISSN: 1989-6115 |
| Publisher | Springer Science+Business Media (PUBLISHER • DE) |
| DOI | 10.1007/s11158-023-09618-y |
| OpenAlex | W4382938055 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 43 |
Addiction is a widespread problem affecting people from different regions, generations, and classes. It is often analysed as a problem consisting in compulsion or poor choice-making. Recently, however, integrated analyses of compulsion and choice have been called for. In this paper, I argue that the capability approach highlights the well-being loss at stake in cases of addiction, whether they are described as stemming from compulsion, poor choice-making, or some combination thereof. The relevant capabilities obtain when combinations of individual, socio-political, and environmental factors jointly facilitate abstention. On this complementary evaluative analysis, people’s capabilities to abstain are shown to be undermined by how different kinds of factors interact with each other. The upshot is that without committing to an empirical view of the nature of addiction that must capture each case, the capabilitarian analysis helps highlight a central goal of addiction-related well-being policy-work, namely to promote people’s genuine opportunities to abstain
Addiction · Economics · Political science · Politics · Positive economics · Psychiatry · Sociology · Work (physics · Employment and Welfare Studies · Engineering · Income, Poverty, and Inequality · Law · Psychological Well-being and Life Satisfaction · Psychology · Social Psychology
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