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Addiction and Liability

Jan 24, 2020
by Andrew@Reliabilityoxford.co.uk
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The report provides a full account of addiction analysed against the standard headings used by the common law: breach of duty, foreseeability, causation, proximity, indemnity etc. On this basis, new addictants such as caffeine and sugar are assessed. The report sells for £550 plus VAT where applicable. write to andrew@reliabilityoxford.co.uk for further details. Picture sources: By Pauk https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/66/Cannabis_sativa2.jpg By Romain Behar – Own work, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=1219848 By Julius Schorzman – Own work, CC BY-SA 2.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=107645 Website privacy policy This website is operated by Re: Liability (Oxford) Ltd. We take your privacy very seriously therefore we urge to read this policy very carefully because it contains important information about on: who we are, how and why we collect, store, use and share personal information, your rights in relation to
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Addiction and Liability

Jan 14, 2020
by Andrew@Reliabilityoxford.co.uk
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Addiction is not new. Drug trade wars have been fought. Legislation passed. Empires funded. Social ills disguised, profits made, careers progressed, lawyers enriched, jails filled, politicians acclaimed, lives ruined. Fundamental to addiction is that humans are strongly adapted to both habit formation and habit reinforcement. Whether these be physical habits such as how to walk or kick a football, social habits such as preferring to speak with people who have the same interests, cognitive biases such as selecting evidence which supports our view, or political biases such as liberalism or conservatism. These are all, to some extent, habits. Addictive behaviour is indicative of particularly strong habit reinforcement. Addiction is built upon our neurological habit-forming processes, our desire for pleasure, our capacity to prefer perverse arguments, our need for social conformity (or the reverse), and highly unpleasant withdrawal effects, lest we forget. Understandably, given the machine
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