Addiction and Choice
Rethinking the relationship
Edited by Nick Heather and Gabriel Segal
Author Information
Nick Heather, Emeritus Professor of Alcohol & Other Drug Studies, Northumbria University,Gabriel Segal, Professor of Philosophy, King's College, London
Nick Heather is Emeritus Professor of Alcohol & Other Drug Studies at Northumbria University. After working as a clinical psychologist in the NHS, he developed the Addictive Behaviours Research Group at the University of Dundee. In 1987 he became founding Director of the National Drug and Alcohol Research Centre at the University of New South Wales. He returned to the UK in 1994 as Consultant Clinical Psychologist at the Newcastle City Health NHS Trust and as Director of the Centre for Alcohol and Drug Studies. He took up his present position on retirement from the NHS in 2003. He has published over 500 scientific articles, books, book chapters and other publications, with an emphasis on the treatment of alcohol problems and alcohol brief interventions.
Gabriel Segal has a B.A. in Philosophy (first class honours) from University College London (1981), a B. Phil. (with overall distinction) from the University of Oxford (1983) and a PhD in Philosophy from M.I.T. (1987). He was Assistant Professor of Philosophy, University of Wisconsin-Madison (1987-89). He was Lecturer, Reader, then Professor of Philosophy at King's College, London (1989-present) and was Professor of Philosophy at the University of Reading (2012-2103). He is author (with Richard K. Larson) of Knowledge of Meaning: An Introduction to Semantic Theory MIT Press (1995); A Slim Book about Narrow Content, MIT Press (2000) and Twelve Steps to Psychological Good Health and Serenity: a Guide, Grosvenor House Publishing (2013).
Contributors:
Serge H. Ahmed - Université Victor Segalen, Bordeaux, France
George Ainslie - University of Cape Town, South Africa; Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Coatesville, PA, USA
Roy F. Baumeister - Florida State University, USA; and King Abdulaziz University, Saudi Arabia
Antoine Bechara - University of Southern California, USA
Kent Berridge - University of Michigan, USA
Beth Burgess - Smyls Therapy, London, UK
Patrick Butlin - King's College London, UK
Susan D. Chandler - University of Florida, USA
JeeWon Cheong - University of Alabama at Birmingham, USA
W. Miles Cox - Bangor University, UK
Thomas Crowther - University of Warwick, UK
Ashley A. Dennhardt - University of Memphis, USA
Javad S. Fadardi - Ferdowsi University of Mashhad, Iran; and Bangor University, UK
Owen Flanagan - Duke University, USA
Bennett Foddy - New York University, USA
Rita Z. Goldstein - Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, NY, USA
Nick Heather - Northumbria University, UK
Edmund Henden - Oslo and Akershus University College of Applied Sciences, Norway
Gene M. Heyman - Boston College, USA
Richard Holton - University of Cambridge, UK
Eric Klinger - University of Minnesota, USA
Marc D. Lewis - Radboud University, Netherlands
Heather M. Maranges - Florida State University, USA
Verna Mims - Harvard Extension School, USA
Scott J. Moeller - Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, USA
Stephen J. Morse - University of Pennsylvania, USA
James G. Murphy - University of Memphis, USA
Nasir H. Naqvi - Columbia University and New York State Psychiatric Institute, USA
David Papineau - King's College London, UK
Hanna Pickard - University of Birmingham, UK
Howard Rachlin - Stony Brook University, USA
Gabriel M. A. Segal - King's College London, UK
Jalie A. Tucker - University of Florida, USA
Andrew J. Vonasch - Florida State University, USA
Ali M. Yurasek - University of Memphis, USA
