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Addicted to Food, Hungry for Drugs

Content Provider	Springer Nature Link
Author	Foddy, Bennett
Copyright Year	2010
Abstract	There is a growing consensus among neuroscientists that people can become addicted to food, and that at least some cases of obesity have addiction as their cause. By contrast, the rest of the world continues to see obesity as either a disease of the metabolism, or as a reckless case of self-harm. Among obesity researchers, there has been a lively debate on the issue of whether obesity ought to be considered a disease. Few researchers, however, have suggested that obesity is a disease in the same sense as addiction is usually claimed to be a disease—that is, a disease of behaviour with a neurological cause. In this piece, I review what is now a compelling body of evidence for food addiction, to establish that many or most cases of obesity have addiction at their foundation. I then argue that in spite of this, obesity ought not to be considered a neurobehavioural disease in the sense usually attributed to drug addiction. Given the link between addiction and obesity, this implies that the disease conception of addiction must be abandoned. I conclude by assessing some of the implications this move has for policy and ethics, with regard to both obesity and drug addiction.
Starting Page	79
Ending Page	89
Page Count	11
File Format	PDF
ISSN	18745490
Journal	Neuroethics
Volume Number	4
Issue Number	2
e-ISSN	18745504
Language	English
Publisher	Springer Netherlands
Publisher Date	2010-05-05
Publisher Place	Dordrecht
Access Restriction	One Nation One Subscription (ONOS)
Subject Keyword	Addiction Obesity Binge-eating Drugs Neuroscience Neuropsychology Neurobiology Ethics Neuroradiology Neurology Neurosurgery
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article
Subject	Philosophy Neurology Health Policy Psychiatry and Mental Health

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