Open AccessTamyko Ysa, Joan Colom, Adrià Albareda, Anna Ramon, Marina Carrión, & Lidia Segura, Governance of Addictions (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014)
Author(s) -
Ársæll Arnarsson
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
nordicum-mediterraneum
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 1670-6242
DOI - 10.33112/nm.10.1.9
Subject(s) - harm , profit (economics) , addiction , corporate governance , power (physics) , sociology , political science , law , management , economics , psychology , psychiatry , neoclassical economics , physics , quantum mechanics
Humans have always used psychotropic substances and share a co-evolutionary bond with the plants that supply them. This is a delicate relationship and requires only a small shift in power for the harm to outweigh the possible benefits of use. In contemporary society such changes can stem from our innate addictive tendencies as well as from the profit-seeking of others.