Strange brew: opiates from yeast
A recent series of papers have constructed a biochemical pathway that allows yeast to produce opiates. It is not quite a sugar-to-heroin home brew yet, but putting together the pieces looks fairly...
View ArticleGuest Post: What’s wrong with obesity (and addiction)?
Written by Anke Snoek Macquarie University Many of us experience failure of self-control once in a while. These failures are often harmless, and may involve alcohol or food. Because we have experiences...
View ArticleGuest Post: Must we throw out the brain with the bathwater? Marc Lewis on...
Written by Anke Snoek Macquarie University When neuroscience started to mingle into the debate on addiction and self-control, people aimed to use these insights to cause a paradigm shift in how we...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Guest Post: Pervitin instead of coffee? Change in attitudes to cognitive...
Written by Marcelo de Araujo State University of Rio de Janeiro CNPq – The Brazilian National Council for Scientific and Technological Development How does our attitude to drugs in general shape our...
View Article“The medicalization of love”– podcast interview
Just out today is a podcast interview for Smart Drug Smarts between host Jesse Lawler and interviewee Brian D. Earp on “The Medicalization of Love” (title taken from a recent paper with Anders Sandberg...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Guest Post: “Gambling should be fun, not a problem”: why strategies of...
Written by Melanie Trouessin University of Lyon Faced with issues related to gambling and games of chance, the Responsible Gambling program aims to promote moderate behaviour on the part of the player....
View ArticleAddiction, Desire, and The Polluted Environment – Richard Holton’s 2nd Uehiro...
By Jonathan Pugh In the second of his three Uehiro lectures on the theme of ‘illness and the social self’, Richard Holton turned to the moral questions raised by addiction. In the first half of the...
View ArticleVideo Interview: Richard Holton on Addiction
Is addiction within or beyond our control? What turns something into an addiction? What should we do (more of) to tackle addiction? In this interview with Dr Katrien Devolder (philosophy, Oxford),...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Is Addiction an Expression of One’s Deep Self?
By Doug McConnell Chandra Sripada (2016) has recently proposed a conative self-expression account of moral responsibility which claims that we are responsible for actions motivated by what we care for...
View ArticleCross Post: Spectator TV – Should the government ban smoking? With Kate...
Oxford Uehiro Centre’s Professor Dominic Wilkinson discusses the government’s proposal to ban smoking with The Spectator. The post Cross Post: Spectator TV – Should the government ban smoking? With...
View Article