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The authors and I agree on many features of addiction, such as its developmental (versus pathological) nature. But because I rely on much of the same data as the Brain Disease Model of Addiction (BDMA), they seem to conflate my work with that of my opponents. Indeed they are generally skeptical of the use of neuroscientific data to help understand addiction, calling it "immature." Thus my work is also suspect. Hall and colleagues believe that it is impossible to look at neural and social processes at the same time, yet that is exactly what I do. I suggest that interdisciplinary approaches to addiction are crucial.
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Lewis, M. Brains are Important Too: Reply to Hall, Carter, and Barnett. Neuroethics 10, 111–114 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12152-017-9326-7
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