# What Is It Like to Be an Addict?

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- Authors: [Owen Flanagan](https://www.bookquiver.com/owen-flanagan)
- Publisher: Oxford University Press
- ISBN: 978-01-9938-892-9
- Pages: 320
- Published: 2025-04-24
- Language: en_US
- Binding: Hardcover

## Description

Renowned philosopher and former addict Owen Flanagan provides a powerful, far reaching examination of addiction. His is the first book to integrate the experience of addiction and the myriad social, cultural, psychological, and physiological factors that create it. Flanagan's holistic analysis also discusses the drawbacks of conventional theories o