Drug Addicts As Rational Actors: Rethinking the science of addiction
How do you justify taking away someone’s agency? The easiest way is to claim they didn’t have it in the first place. For a long time, both popular media and information sources on the subject have depicted drug addicts as zombies incapable of making rational choices. Helpguide.org describes drug addiction as causing “changes in your brain,” which … [Read more…]