@inbook{10.2307/j.ctt5hhn21.9, ISBN = {9780262015509}, URL = {http://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctt5hhn21.9}, abstract = {In public discussions of addiction and responsibility, it is common to find both those who are sympathetic to addicts who act badly and those who are not, holding, often merely tacitly, that addict responsibility is all or nothing. “It’s a disease!” one side says, suggesting that we can hold the addict no more responsible for wrongdoing than we can the person with laryngitis who keeps quiet when speech is called for. “No, it’s a matter of personal responsibility!” claims the other side, suggesting that wrongdoing by addicts is only cosmetically different, if even that, from wrongdoing by nonaddicts. What both}, author = {Gideon Yaffe}, booktitle = {Addiction and Responsibility}, pages = {113--138}, publisher = {MIT Press}, title = {Lowering the Bar for Addicts}, year = {2011} }