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Nevertheless, the combination of a long-term aim and a short-term one in our alcohol addiction overcoming model rational choice story has some potential yet. We wrote before that alcohol addiction unlike some other drugs takes time and often reaches its peak when a person is at the peak of his / her career has a high position in the society, a good salary, favorite work: those things that are weighty not only at the rational level, but also provide strong incentives for the same reward system he / she stimulates with alcohol at the same time. The alcohol addiction study often contain the idea that, statistically, the addiction affects different social strata evenly.

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West, Robert, and Jamie Brown. 2014. Theory of addiction. Second edition. Chichester West Sussex UK: Wiley Blackwell/Addiction Press.

Few areas of inquiry into human affairs have produced as many experts as the field of chemical dependence. Alcoholism and drug addiction are loaded with international and national experts, each claiming special knowledge of these peculiar diseases that have roused so much controversy while continuing to be so misunderstood by so many. There are experts on wayward chemicals in the brain.