Addictology: a neo-discipline and its homogeneity. Conditions for knowledge generation at work

Addictology professionals come from a wide variety of backgrounds. Their practice diversity influences the homogeneity of their representations and the concepts available to them when they debate amongst themselves. Variations in norms, reference values and beliefs can also influence as the register refers to sensitive elements such as excess, pleasure, risk and transgression. In failing to find a common measure, the trap is to find oneself in a radical nominalism, whose meanings and implications are entirely different for the individual. Faced with a complexity and multiplicity of determinants, professionals are pushed to question the risk of misunderstanding, to what underlies their conceptions, their implicit aims, their practices, their evidence and the validity of the concepts on which they rely. Here, delicate transdisciplinarity or even transnosography problems arise. We will discuss this in this article.