“Multi-system models suggest that addiction is a question of harmful dysfunction - dysfunction (vulnerabilities leading to active failure modes) within a system that causes sufficient harm to suggest we need to treat it. They permit both behavioral and pharmacological drivers of addiction.
The suggestion that different decision-making systems can drive behavior provides a very interesting treatment possibility, which is that one could potentially use one decision-system to correct for errors in another. Three computational analyses of this have been done - changing discounting rates with episodic future thinking, analyses of contingency management, and analyses of precommitment.”