2016 Koppel JDS. This is an open-access short article dispersed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, circulation, and reproduction in any medium, provided the initial author and source are credited. The ethical and medical designs, the dominant paradigms of drug dependency, disagree on the question of obligation. The medical design views it as the habits of a' hijacked' brain. In the middle of efforts to decarcerate American jails, the relative merits of these two designs are being weighed. Which raises the question of whether policy- makers need to be resigned to picking one side of the moral/ medical dichotomy. In this commentary, the moral and medical models will be critically evaluated, and an alternative 3rd way, a multi-level design, recommended. The important difference in between them is where they place blame for an addicts' behavior: the moral model views drug addiction as the choice of a free and autonomous

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