02160nam a22003498a 4500 CR9781139540971 UkCbUP 20180107143409.0 m|||||o||d|||||||| cr|||||||||||| 120628s2013||||enk s ||1 0|eng|d 9781139540971 (ebook) 9781107034761 (hardback) 9781107610095 (paperback) UkCbUP UkCbUP rda RC533 .O74 2013 616.85/84 23 Orford, Jim, author. Power, Powerlessness and Addiction / [electronic resource] Jim Orford. Power, Powerlessness & Addiction Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2013. 1 online resource (273 pages) : digital, PDF file(s). text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 09 Oct 2015). Addiction exercises enormous power over all those who are touched by it. This book argues that power and powerlessness have been neglected in addiction studies and that they are a unifying theme that brings together different areas of research from the field including the disempowering nature of addiction; effects on family, community and the workplace; epidemiological and ethnographic work; studies of the legal and illegal supply; and theories of treatment and change. Examples of alcohol, drug and gambling addiction are used to discuss the evidence that addiction is most disempowering where social resources to resist it are weakest; the ways in which the dominant discourses about addictive behaviour encourage the attributing of responsibility for addiction to individuals and divert attention from the powerful who benefit from addiction; and the ways in which the voices of those whose interests are least well-served by addiction are silenced. Compulsive behavior Control (Psychology) Print version: 9781107034761 http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781139540971 Cambridge Books Online 236317 236317