Defense Addiction

Author : Sanford Gottlieb
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 042998071X
Total Pages : 202 pages
Book Rating : 4.18/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Defense Addiction written by Sanford Gottlieb and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-02-12 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Whatever happened to the post–Cold War “peace dividend”? Why does military spending continue to escape federal budget reductions? Why, despite the nearly universal desire to reduce government waste and budget deficits, is the United States still saddled with a costly, bloated military-industrial complex? The answer, says Sanford Gottlieb, is the debilitating dependence of a key sector of the American economy on defense jobs and profits. Defense Addiction is based on hundreds of interviews with defense contractors, union representatives, members of Congress, state and federal officials, lobbyists, economic development professionals, and local activists. Gottlieb explains how these groups and individuals cope with defense dependence, competition for federal funds, and budget and job cuts—painting a sobering picture of how this addiction hampers the nation’s ability to deal effectively with a host of domestic and global problems. Gottlieb’s engaging and jargon-free volume points to civilian public investments, reduced military spending, strengthened international peacekeeping, and other measures that could help our country kick the defense habit. His book also provides guidance to companies and communities struggling to break free in the face of inadequate government policies.

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 76 pages
Book Rating : 4.96/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Drugs, Brains, and Behavior written by and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Nick Heather
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0191040053
Total Pages : 512 pages
Book Rating : 4.54/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Addiction and Choice written by Nick Heather and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2016-09-22 with total page 512 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The central problem in the study of addiction is to explain why people repeatedly behave in ways they know are bad for them. For much of the previous century and until the present day, the majority of scientific and medical attempts to solve this problem were couched in terms of involuntary behaviour; if people behave in ways they do not want, then this must be because the behaviour is beyond their control and outside the realm of choice. An opposing tradition, which finds current support among scientists and scholars as well as members of the general public, is that so-called addictive behavior reflects an ordinary choice just like any other and that the concept of addiction is a myth. The editors and authors of this book tend to take neither view. There has been an increasing recognition in recent literature on addiction that restricting possible conceptions of it to either of these extreme positions is unhelpful and is retarding progress on understanding the nature of addiction and what could be done about it. This book contains a range of views from philosophy, neuroscience, psychiatry, psychology and the law on what exactly this middle ground between free choice and no choice consists of and what its implications are for theory, practice and policy on addiction. The result amounts to a profound change in our thinking on addiction and how its devastating consequences can be ameliorated. Addiction and Choice is a thought provoking new volume for all those with an interest in this global issue.

Author : Jacob Sullum
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1585423181
Total Pages : 353 pages
Book Rating : 4.87/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Saying Yes written by Jacob Sullum and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2004-05-11 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The nationally syndicated columnist and Reason magazine editor presents a damning portrait of how politicized government agencies, antidrug activists, and a naïve national media have exaggerated the public's fears of the harmful effects of recreational drugs. Jacob Sullum goes beyond the debate on legalization or the proper way to win the "war on drugs," to the heart of a social and individual defense of using drugs. Saying Yes argues that the all-or-nothing thinking that has long dominated discussions of illegal drug use should give way to a wiser, subtler approach exemplified by the tradition of moderate drinking. Saying Yes further contends that the conventional understanding of addiction, portraying it as a kind of chemical slavery in which the user's values and wishes do not matter, is also fundamentally misleading.

Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 612 pages
Book Rating : 4.65/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Insanity Defense written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 612 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations. Subcommittee on Department of Defense
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1688 pages
Book Rating : 4.03/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Department of Defense appropriations for 1982 written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations. Subcommittee on Department of Defense and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 1688 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 852 pages
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Download or read book Department of Defense Appropriations for ... written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 852 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Michael S. Moore
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0190864001
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.02/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mechanical Choices written by Michael S. Moore and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2020-05-08 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mechanical Choices details the intimate connection that exists between morality and law: the morality we use to blame others for their misdeeds and the criminal law that punishes them for these misdeeds. This book shows how both law and morality presuppose the accuracy of common sense, a centuries-old psychology that defines people as rational agents who make honorable choices and act for just reasons. It then shows how neuroscience is commonly taken to challenge these fundamental psychological assumptions. Such challenges--four in number--are distinguished from each other by the different neuroscientific facts from which they arise: the fact that human choices are caused by brain events; the fact that those choices don't cause the actions that are their objects but are only epiphenomenal to those choices; the fact that those choices are identical to certain physical events in the brain; and the fact that human subjects are quite fallible in their knowledge of what they are doing and why. The body of this book shows how such challenges are either based on faulty facts or misconceived as to the relevance of such facts to responsibility. The book ends with a detailed examination of the neuroscience of addiction, an examination which illustrates how neuroscience can help rather than challenge both law and morality in their quest to accurately define excuses from responsibility.

Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Veterans' Affairs
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 196 pages
Book Rating : 4.66/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Drug Addiction and Abuse Among Military Veterans, 1971, Joint Hearings Before the Subcommittee on Health and Hospitals of ..., and Subcommittee on Alcoholism and Narcotics of the Committee on Labor and Public Welfare written by United States. Congress. Senate. Veterans' Affairs and published by . This book was released on 1971 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Nick Heather
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000540065
Total Pages : 725 pages
Book Rating : 4.62/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Evaluating the Brain Disease Model of Addiction written by Nick Heather and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2022-03-07 with total page 725 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This ground-breaking book advances the fundamental debate about the nature of addiction. As well as presenting the case for seeing addiction as a brain disease, it brings together all the most cogent and penetrating critiques of the brain disease model of addiction (BDMA) and the main grounds for being skeptical of BDMA claims. The idea that addiction is a brain disease dominates thinking and practice worldwide. However, the editors of this book argue that our understanding of addiction is undergoing a revolutionary change, from being considered a brain disease to a disorder of voluntary behavior. The resolution of this controversy will determine the future of scientific progress in understanding addiction, together with necessary advances in treatment, prevention, and societal responses to addictive disorders. This volume brings together the various strands of the contemporary debate about whether or not addiction is best regarded as a brain disease. Contributors offer arguments for and against, and reasons for uncertainty; they also propose novel alternatives to both brain disease and moral models of addiction. In addition to reprints of classic articles from the addiction research literature, each section contains original chapters written by authorities on their chosen topic. The editors have assembled a stellar cast of chapter authors from a wide range of disciplines – neuroscience, philosophy, psychiatry, psychology, cognitive science, sociology, and law – including some of the most brilliant and influential voices in the field of addiction studies today. The result is a landmark volume in the study of addiction which will be essential reading for advanced students and researchers in addiction as well as professionals such as medical practitioners, psychiatrists, psychologists of all varieties, and social workers.