Contents include: Matthias Kaufmann: Intoxication and Addiction as Subjects of Philosophical Reflection - Claudia Wiesemann: The History of the Concept of Addiction - Following the Trail of a Medical Chameleon - Felix Tretter: Aspects of a Philosophy of Addiction. Scientific-Theoretical Problems of Intoxication and Addiction - Kai-D. Bussmann: Freedom - Social Development - Discipline and Intoxication - Norbert Scherbaum: Medical Heroin Prescription. Empirical Data and Medical-Ethical Discussion - Jan C. Joerden: Prescribing Instead of Prohibiting? On the Ethics of State Anti-Drug Policy - Alexander Aichele: Madness and Truth. Intoxication as a Privileged Mode of Being in Plato and Georges Bataille - Jürgen Helm: Intoxication, Religion, and Rebellion. The Social Construction of Psychedelism - Hans-Jürgen Luderer: Peace of Mind by Prescription. On the Medical Prescription of Benzodiazepines - Walter Zitterbarth: Can It Be Bad for Me to Indulge Myself? Drug Use as Risky Behavior in Risk Society - Alfred Springer: Stranded in Pepperland - Hinderk M. Emrich: On the Philosophical Anthropology of Addiction - Harald Köhl: Addiction and Personal Responsibility. Philosophical Approaches to an Addiction Ethics - Anton Leist: What Could Be Good About Drugs? - Joachim Hruschka: The Distinction Between Duty and Obligation, Applied to Self-Indulgence - Jean-Christophe Merle: Crime Associated with Intoxication and the Prohibition of Intoxicants - Joachim Renzikowski: Intoxication Offense and the Concept of Guilt - Felix M. Böcker: Between Vital Threat and Psychosocial Rehabilitation: Alcoholics in Clinical Care - Lukas K. Sosoe: Paths Out of Intoxication, Paths Out of Addiction.