Psycho-Social Model Of Addiction Essay

There are a variety of addiction models but we are going to go over the bio, psycho, social model. The bio-psycho-social model recommends that addiction results of biological and psychosocial factors. According to Doweiko (2012) the biology parts of the bio, psycho, social model consist of the structural, molecular substrates of a disease, and anemometrical. An example would be Suds and how they effect of the disorder has on the person. A SUDS causes problems in the biological process and alters normal biological processes. Bio According to Doweiko (2012) day’s support for biological model is found by research, which says that under certain conditions there is a release of neuro transmitter dopamine in select regions of the brain that initiates a neurotransmitter cascade in the reward system that is experienced as sense of pleasure. The bio, psycho, social model recommends that addiction results of biological and psychosocial factors. According to Doweiko (2012) research shows us that a person who habitual drinks one to two weeks …show more content…
The bio, social, psycho, spiritual model has some weaknesses. One of the strengths of this model is it recognizes a variety pathway to recovery. A weakness of the model would include that it is broad people sometimes loses focus and because this model suggest that addiction is the cause of everything it can make it hard to find the contributing factor to development and maintenance of addiction. The biological model uses information to create treatments. One treatment they created that was a break through promise was a vaccine that helps fight cocaine and methamphetamine molecules and help prevent them from reaching the brain. The biological