When we talk about 'addiction', we generally think of individual people who experience it or suffer from it. The focus is on individuals. When it comes to the science of addiction, the dominant conceptions are psychobiological and the master disciplines are psychiatry specifically or the psy sciences more generally. My argument is that the addiction-as-individual-abnormality approach is partial, fragmented and ultimately ineffective, because it does not acknowledge the importance of power and therefore leaves distortions of power in place. I offer a more social model of addiction in which power is the central concept. The power and powerlessness model has the following components:
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