Toward a Syndrome Model of Addiction: Multiple Expressions, Common Etiology

By Howard J. Shaffer, Debi A. LaPlante, R. LaBrie, R. Kidman, Anthony N Donato, Michael V. Stanton. Harvard Review of Psychiatry, 2004

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Subfields: Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience, Clinical Psychology, Epidemiology

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Clinical psychology of Internet addiction: a review of its conceptualization, prevalence, neuronal processes, and implications for treatment (2015, positive): “…studies suggest that IA shares various neurobiological and neurochemical similarities with more traditional substance-related addictions, indicating that addictions should be viewed from a syndrome perspective, 103 including both substance-related addictions and behavioral addictions, such as IA.”
Ethics of the Attention Economy: The Problem of Social Media Addiction (2020, background): “Third, the same molecular pathways (e.g., dopaminergic) that operate in substance addictions are implicated in internet addiction (Hou, Jia, Hu, Fan, Sun, Sun, & Zhang, 2012; Shaffer et al., 2004; Tian et al., 2014).”
Pathological Video-Game Use Among Youth Ages 8 to 18 (2009, background): “Although there is still considerable debate about how to define addictions (Shaffer, Hall, & Vander Bilt, 2000; Shaffer & Kidman, 2003; Shaffer et al., 2004), most researchers studying pathological computer or video-game use have developed defiAddress correspondence to Douglas Gentile, Department…”
Online Social Networking and Addiction—A Review of the Psychological Literature (2011, background): “Moreover, scholars have suggested that a combination of biological, psychological and social factors contributes to the etiology of addictions [16,17], that may also hold true for SNS addiction.”
Assessing Internet Addiction Using the Parsimonious Internet Addiction Components Model—A Preliminary Study (2013, background): “specific to a particular object or behaviour and one substance or behaviour can be easily substituted by another one (Shaffer et al. 2004).”
Problems with the Concept of Video Game “Addiction”: Some Case Study Examples (2008, background): “…supported by the finding that there is often a great deal of comorbidity between addictions, and frequently people are often " addicted " to more than one substance or activity (Baker 2000; Black and Moyer 1998; Christenson et al. 1994; Feigelman et al. 1998; Shaffer et al. 2004; Wood et al. 2004).”
How can we conceptualize behavioral addiction without pathologizing common behaviors? (2017, positive): “For example, the syndrome model of addiction [4] distinguishes usefully the distal antecedents of an addiction (aetiological processes) from its multiple expressions and manifestations (the behaviours and their symptoms).”
Internet Gaming Addiction: A Systematic Review of Empirical Research (2012, background): “Put simply, Shaffer et al. (2004) suggest that each addiction – whether it be to gambling, drugs, sex, or the Internet – might be a distinctive expression of the same underlying syndrome (i.e., addiction is a syndrome with multiple opportunistic expressions).”
A ‘components’ model of addiction within a biopsychosocial framework (2005, background): “…1465-9891 print/ISSN 1475-9942 online # 2005 Taylor & Francis Group Ltd DOI: 10.1080/14659890500114359 (e.g. Miller, 1980; Orford, 2001; Shaffer et al., 2004) which views a number of behaviours as potentially addictive including many behaviours which do not involve the ingestion of a…”