 Polarized societal attitudes towards responsibility for addictive behavior and towards its disorder status, are mirrored in philosophical analyses and theoretical positions (West 2006; Poland &amp; Graham 2011; Flanagan 2017). Accounts that construe addiction as a disorder reducing responsibility invoke the idea of irresistible compulsion and periodic failures of self-control (Vohs &amp; Heatherton 2000). Objections to this “willpower” view include its being unable to distinguish those who won’t from those who cannot abstain from using, deficiency from deviance (Foddy &amp; Savulescu 2010; Levy 2013). Added to these difficulties, the phenomenology of addiction is not uniform (Kennett 2013).