This course will examine the vailidity of ideas about addiction and their implications for public, social, clinical, and legal policy. In addition, it will examine in detail conflicting types of treatment for addiction, the efficacy of addiction treatment in general, First Amendment issues and court-ordered addiction treatment, criminal responsibility, Alcoholics Anonymous and religious-conversion experience, use of mind-altering drugs as religious activities and the ethics of attempts to protect people from themselves advanced by today's public health movement.