the moral model of addiction and the disease model of addiction, Pickard has developed a value-based framework for drug choice in substance use disorders that recognizes the many functions drugs serve and integrates a heterogeneous range of factors that influence addicted decision-making in addition to craving, including: psychiatric co-morbidity, limited socio-economic opportunities, decision-making biases, denial and motivated irrationality, and a sense of self and social identity. Responsibility Without Blame Another, yet strongly related, central research project is the ethical framework Pickard developed out of her experiences with the Oxfordshire Complex Needs Service and her research on addiction, titled “Responsibility without Blame," which focuses on the ways in which society responds to behaviors such as crime and addiction. The framework separates the ideas of agency and responsibility from moral condemnation and blame, and emphasizes holding individuals accountable for harmful behavior without blaming them. Pickard has also developed an open access e-learning toolkit that teaches learners how to use this framework in practice. Pickard has also written extensively in collaboration with Nicola Lacey on the application of the Responsibility without Blame framework in criminal justice theory and practice. Personal life Pickard is married to fellow Bloomberg Distinguished Professor Ian Phillips. The two met when they were both fellows at All Souls College, Oxford. References External links Living people Canadian women philosophers Canadian ethicists 21st-century Canadian philosophers Canadian emigrants to the United States People from Kingston, Ontario Queen's University at Kingston alumni Alumni of Magdalen College, Oxford Alumni of All Souls College, Oxford Academics of the University of Birmingham Johns Hopkins University faculty Medical ethicists Philosophers of mind Philosophers of science Canadian expatriate academics in the United States 1972 births Moral psychologists