Neta Renwick
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2016 Koppel JDS. This is an open-access post distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unlimited use, circulation, and reproduction in any medium, supplied the original author and source are credited. The ethical and medical models, the dominant paradigms of drug addiction, disagree on the question of obligation. The medical design views it as the behavior of a' pirated' brain. Amid efforts to decarcerate American prisons, the relative benefits of these two models are being weighed. Which raises the concern of whether policy- makers need to be resigned to selecting one side of the ethical/ medical dichotomy. In this commentary, the ethical and medical designs will be critically evaluated, and an alternative 3rd way, a multi-level design, recommended. The important difference in between them is where they put blame for an addicts' habits: the moral model views drug dependency as the option of a complimentary and self-governing |