Hanna Pickard is Professor in Philosophy of Psychology at the University of Birmingham, UK, and a Visiting Research Scholar in the Program of Cognitive Science, Princeton University 2017-19.

Serge H. Ahmed is a Research Director at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS). He currently works at the Centre Broca Nouvelle-Aquitaine, Bordeaux Neurocampus, Université de Bordeaux, France.

Part 1: What is Addiction? Section 1: Conceptions of Addiction 1. The Puzzle of Addiction 2. Deriving Addiction: An Analysis Based on Three Elementary Features of Making Choices 3. The Picoeconomics of Addiction 4. Addiction as a Disorder of Self-control 5. Addiction: The Belief Oscillation Hypothesis 6. Addiction and Moral Psychology 7. Identity and Addiction 8. The Harmful Dysfunction Analysis of Addiction: Normal Brains and Abnormal States of Mind 9. The Evolutionary Significance of Drug Toxicity over Reward Section 2: Varieties, Taxonomies, and Models of Addiction 10. Defining Addiction: A Pragmatic Perspective 11. Diagnosis of Addictions 12. Reconsidering Addiction as a Syndrome: One Disorder with Multiple Expressions 13. Developing General Models and Theories of Addiction 14. Gambling Disorder 15. Food Addiction 16. "A Walk On the Wild Side" of Addiction: The History and Significance of Animal Models Part 2: Explaining Addiction: Culture, Pathways, Mechanisms Section 1: Anthropological, Historical, and Socio-Psychological Perspectives 17. Power and Addiction 18. Sociology of Addiction 19. The Fuzzy Boundaries of Illegal Drug Markets and Why They Matter 20. Multiple Commitments: Heterogeneous Histories of Neuroscientific Addiction Research Section 2: Developmental Processes, Vulnerabilities and Resilience 21. The Epidemiological Approach: An Overview of Methods and Models 22. A Genetic Framework For Addiction 23. Choice Impulsivity: A Drug-modifiable Personality Trait 24. Stress and Addiction Section 3: Psychological and Neural Mechanisms 25. Mechanistic Models for Understanding Addiction as a Behavioral Disorder 26. Controlled and Automatic Learning Processes in Addiction 27. Decision-making Dysfunctions in Addiction 28. The Current Status of the Incentive Sensitization Theory of Addiction 29. Resting-state and Structural Brain Connectivity in Individuals with Stimulant Addiction: A Systematic Review 30. Imaging Dopamine Signaling in Addiction 31. The Neurobiology of the Placebo Effects of Addictive Drugs 32. Brain Mechanisms and the Disease Model of Addiction: Is it the Whole Story of the Addicted Self? A Philosophical-skeptical Perspective Part 3: Consequences, Responses, and the Meaning of Addiction Section 1: Listening and Relating to Addicts 33. The Outcasts Project: Humanizing Long-term Heroin Users Through Documentary Photography and Photo-elicitation 34. Our Stories, Our Knowledge: The Importance of Addicts Epistemic Authority in Treatment 35. Reactive Attitudes, Relationships, and Addiction Section 2: Prevention, Treatment, and Spontaneous Recovery 36. Contingency Management Approaches 37. 12-step Fellowship and Recovery from Addiction 38. Opioid Substitution Treatment and Harm Minimization Approaches 39. Self-change: Genesis and Functions of a Concept Section 3: Ethics, Law and Policy 40. Addiction: A Structural Problem of Modern Global Society 41. Don't Be Fooled by the Euphemistic Language Attesting to a Gentler War on Drugs 42. Drug legalization and Public Health: General Issues, and the Case of Cannabis 43. Addiction and Drug (De)Criminalization 44. Criminal Law and Addiction 5. Addiction and Mandatory Treatment