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The biopsychosocial and “complex” systems approach as a unified framework for addiction

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 July 2008

Mark D. Griffiths
Mark D. Griffiths
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Department of Gambling Studies, and Director, International Gaming Research Unit, Nottingham Trent University, Nottingham, NG1 4BU, United Kingdom. mark.griffiths@ntu.ac.ukhttp://www.ntu.ac.uk/research/school_research/social/staff/51652gp.html
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Abstract

The “unified framework” for addiction proposed by Redish and colleagues is only unified at a reductionist level of analysis, the biological one relating to decision-making. Theories of addiction may be complementary rather than mutually exclusive, suggesting that limitations of individual theories might be unified through the combination of ideas from different biopsychosocial “complex” systems perspectives.

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Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 31 , Issue 4 , August 2008 , pp. 446 - 447
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2008

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