‘Up in the air’: A conceptual critique of flying addiction

The ‘flyers’ dilemma’, where an individual’s self-identity as an environmentally-responsible consumer conflicts with the environmental impacts of frequent air travel, has been shown to produce a range of negative psychological effects. Some have argued that frequent flying may represent a site of behavioural addiction, characterized by guilt, suppression and denial. While this sort of pathologisation finds parallels in other forms of excessive consumption, its application in a tourist context is problematic in terms of classification validity, attribution of negative consequences, transfer of responsibility, and tendency towards social control and domination. We argue for an alternative conceptual approach to frequent flying which elaborates the structural reproduction of the ‘flyers’ dilemma’, rather than its individual, psychological effects.     

高职学生网络成瘾现状浅析

网络成瘾成为当今的一个热门话题。高职高专学生网络成瘾现象有增多的趋势,这对学生的身心健康和学校的发展产生了很大的负面影响。因此,网络成瘾的防治显得尤为重要和紧迫。     

Virtual reality tourism experiences: Addiction and isolation

This qualitative research note reports two neglected themes in research on virtual reality tourism experiences, i.e. its potentially addictive nature and temporary sense of isolation. Existing work on virtual reality tourism experiences has applied existing knowledge and theories and has solely tested how VR applications can positively mediate or moderate the tourist experience. This study adopted an inductive approach, analyzing contents of reviews and blogs, and consequently uncovered a temporary sense of isolation and the addictive nature of virtual reality as hidden themes within virtual reality tourism experiences. We stress the importance of further work on addiction and a sense of isolation in terms of their nature, role, and effects.     

Rational Choice with Passion: Virtue in a Model of Rational Addiction

By incorporating a divided self into the rational addiction framework, this paper provides a rationale for and an explicit analysis of two types of budget-shrinking behaviors - actions taken to limit access to lifetime wealth in a given period, and actions taken to change the effective price of the addictive good. Moreover, internal conflict models provide a normative rationale, absent from rational addiction models, for policies that limit access to addictive goods.     

Women in Recovery from Alcoholism: The Place of Leisure

There have been a variety of studies that have examined the experiences of women in recovery from alcoholism and other addictions. However, few of these studies have investigated the role of leisure in the recovery process of women. It is generally accepted that women have a different experience of both addiction/recovery, and leisure, than do men. Consequently, the purpose of this project was to examine the recovery related experiences of women in recovery from alcoholism, with a particular emphasis on leisure. The data from an indepth case study of three women, conducted over a six-month period, who had formed their own support network, were examined using a feminist interpretive approach. The results indicated that these women found leisure involvement to be critical to their moving beyond just "not drinking" toward true recovery. However, they stated that, for them, learning how to experience leisure without the mediation of alcohol was extremely difficult. In spite of this difficulty, they undertook the challenge of learning about leisure as they began to recognize its benefits in rebuilding a nonalcoholic identity and a meaningful life. Specifically, they found that leisure involvement allowed them to (a) learn about themselves, (b) learn how to accept and appreciate their various attributes and limitations, and (c) take risks as another means of developing self-awareness.     

What Price Drug Use? The Contribution of Economics to an Evidence‐Based Drugs Policy

Abstract.  This paper presents a review of the recent economics literature in the area of illicit drug use. Particular attention is paid to the economics of addiction and the rational addiction model, the welfare economics framework for analysing the social costs of drug use, and the attempts that have been made by economists to evaluate recent or proposed policy interventions. A dominant theme in this review is the problem of poor data availability. This is particularly true when it comes to implementing the Rational Addiction model, but it is also apparent in the literature on estimating the costs of illicit drug use to society as a whole. One of the main conclusions of this review is that until recently public policy has not been particularly influenced by research carried out by economists. It is not clear whether this is because economists have had to grapple with inadequate data, and hence their conclusions are couched in uncertainty, or whether it is because drugs researchers have assumed a very limited role for economists in their analysis.     

Addiction – and rational choice theory

Becker and Murphy's theory is a well‐known contribution to economists on the discussion of addiction. This class of rational choice theory is still the most important reference for economists studying addiction. In this paper, the model and the economist's rational choice theory were challenged by modern neurobiological theory. The paper suggested reconstruction work of the standard inter‐temporal choice model along four lines to reduce the gap between the theory and the clinical definition of addiction: (1) a discount rate that varies; (2) revision of the concept consumption capital; (3) the possibility for genetic predisposition to addiction (even if the research up to now has not identified such a gene); and (4) social mechanisms that influence our behaviour.     

青少年网络成瘾的原因及矫治探析

在深入分析了青少年网络行为的类型、表现及网络成瘾的原因的基础上，提出了戒除网瘾的有效方法，有助于引导青少年的网络行为，使青少年健康、合理地使用网络。