Addiction and Ethics

Simon J. Robinson and Alexandra J. Kenyon

Chapter 7 in Ethics in the Alcohol Industry, 2009, pp 140-164 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract Thomas Reed (2006) suggests that the real focus of Robert Louis Stevenson’s Jekyll and Hyde is alcoholism. The ‘transforming draught’ is alcohol. Alcoholism takes one beyond the simple idea of abusing alcohol into a relationship of psychological and physical dependency and, with that, a change in character. With that comes the sense of the person’s will being overtaken by alcohol. Slowly but surely, the agency of the person is compromised. As the agency is compromised, so the negative effects of alcoholism begin to show.

Keywords: Moral Significance; Step Programme; Alcoholic Anonymous; Moral Framework; Alcohol Industry (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2009
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DOI: 10.1057/9780230250581_8

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