Introducing Addiction Lives

Lives Per Gallon: The True Cost of Our Oil Addiction

Lives Per Gallon, by Terry Tamminen, is an easy and entertaining read. It tells an important story about our addiction to oil and the price we are paying to support our habit. It is clear from the very first sentence in the book that the author’s heart is in the right place, and that he has the experience of having been both a senior public advocate and the Secretary of the California Environme...

Banishing biases to save lives: introducing genetic testing for familial cancers.

Recovery from drug addiction: Discursive feats in the reconstitution of lives

This study seeks to explore addicts’ experiences of recovery from drug addiction in the context of contemporary discourses surrounding the topic. It takes as its departure point the idea that subjective psychological realities are set against a socio-cultural backdrop and are thus mediated by language. Of particular significance is therefore the role of discourse in the perception and experienc...

Introducing a "Different Lives" Approach to the Valuation of Health and Well-Being

We introduce a new “different lives” survey format, which asks respondents to rank hypothetical lives described in terms of longevity, health, happiness, income, and other elements of the quality of life. In this short paper, we show that the format is of policy relevance whether a mental state, preference satisfaction or extra-welfarist account of well-being is adopted and discuss some of the ...

A Path Model of School Violence Perpetration: Introducing Online Game Addiction as a New Risk Factor.

Drawing on the cognitive information-processing model of aggression and the general aggression model, we explored why adolescents become addicted to online games and how their immersion in online games affects school violence perpetration (SVP). For this purpose, we conducted statistical analyses on 1,775 elementary and middle school students who resided in northern districts of Seoul, South Ko...