Addiction involves the all aspects of one’s life. Areas such a biological, psychological and social environment play a major role in determining the likelihood of an individual becoming an addict. Though bio, psycho, and social aspects weigh heavily in on addiction, an addict spiritual anchor, suffering, and pain have a place in the breaking of man away from God. The human spirit goes through many up and downs as one try to fill a void within their life. Addict seek pleasure within that mind as a reward through the use of SUDs.
The Biological Break Down of an Addict
Addiction is past down from generation to generation by way of biology. In the biological model of addiction an addict cannot escape …show more content…
How one interprets or react to their surrounding connection can determine the severity of addiction. The “psycho” or rather psychological part of the bio/psycho/social model take into consideration psychodynamic forces, learning, motivation, interpersonal interactions and one’s personality towards addiction abuse (Doweiko, 2015). During this process personality plays a major role in environment interaction, future interactions and the biochemical interaction of the brain. The theories of psychological addiction brings biological and social components all together. Within the psychological department of addiction morals, learning, coping, and personality defense shapes the impact of addiction. The moral model of psychological addiction suggest that those who become addicted has a predestined character flaw which made them weak to the temptations of drugs (Doweiko, 2015). Because of this already established weakness addicts are not presumed to be responsible for falling for such temptations. Learning theory takes a different stand on addiction. Learning theory suggest that being addicted or using drugs is a learned behavior rather than giving blame to a generational atmosphere. Learning theory suggest that addiction is a combination of social, biological, and psychological factors coming together (Doweiko, 2015). Furthermore the learning theory suggest that addiction is not something one is born with and give the example of language and cigarette smoking. Cigarette smoking is learned by the interaction of others in one’s environment. Under the umbrella of learning theory are behavioral, cognitive, psychoanalysis and addictive personality. In the behavioral psychology theory humans seeks pleasure over pain (Doweiko, 2015). This is another form of the humanistic reward system previously spoken about. In an effort to accomplish pleasure during