Disease model of addiction

Stereotyping addiction sufferers as immoral characters is not helpful. It is a shame-based concept that perpetuates the addiction problem and discourages a person from reaching out for help. Who would choose to feel worse about themselves than they already feel? This is why it can be so hard to enter recovery programs. It is deeply disappointing and disingenuous to see again how the media, professionals, and members of our society repeatedly demonize, marginalize and even re-criminalize a…

describe and critically evaluate one or more models of addictive behaviour. Models of addictive behaviour aim to explain the initiation, maintenance and relapse of addictive behaviour. The Biological Model and The Cognitive Model are two that aim to do this. The biological model describes addiction as being a disease and enforces the idea that the addiction can’t be reversed even with treatment. The model is seen as a reductionist approach in explaining addiction because of the ability to pin…

is obesity with many people split on two different sides of the topic. One side claims obesity is completely due to a lack of will-power, and people just need to put down the fork, eat healthier, and exercise, while the other side claims it is a disease or a medical condition and should be treated as such. In some way, both camps are right, but there is more to eating then just hunger and satiety. The brain has a powerful role in the need to eat and feel full, and there are several theories that…

The medical model stresses that addiction is a disease, and one should abstain from any use of a substance. However, as mentioned on the website this model does have it’s drawbacks if one experiences a relapse, “Unfortunately, if an individual violates this ultimatum they may attribute their failure to a weakness in their will power, and then quickly return to their previous patterns of drinking” (McGrawHill Higher Education, 2007, Treatment Strategy). In contrast, the harm-reduction model…

group carries with them their own definitions of culture, history, traditions, and spiritual beliefs. Popularly associated with strength, power, culture, independence and music, aboriginals are quietly suffering from array of mental health and addiction diseases. At large, aboriginal peoples are faced with more hardships throughout their lives than the average Canadian. With some aboriginal reserves being said to be comparable to severe third world living conditions (Wyld, 2011), Aboriginals…

Evaluating Addiction in the eyes today's society is almost like watching a horror movie. With addiction coming in variety of forms, it causes concern as to what perspective society has on the issue of addiction. Though some of our society would express that some addictions are more concerning than others. The reality is all addiction have risk and are all dangerous. Romans 7:18 says, “For I know that nothing good dwells in me, that is, in my flesh. For I have the desire to do what is right, but…

of research is the neurobiological basis of emotional and personality development across childhood. Marc has also battled addiction himself with opiates. The most significant point of Marc’s speech to me was the description of all the different models of addiction. Marc described all the models including the disease, choice, social consequence, and the self-medication models. He also spent a large amount of talk talking about brain development, and the amount of grey matter in the brain. Marc…

discussed chemical abuse. I acknowledge that addiction is a very real thing. Addiction not only affects the individual, but it also affects those around them. This makes it a crisis. The chapter opened up by saying that whole economies have been founded on drug use. Drugs not only created revenue in the United States but it also created war. Drugs have started war between civilians and police, between drug dealers and even war between addicts and their addictions. The country benefits from drugs…

Two major determinant which effect on the health of women are addiction and lack of social support. The number of behaviour factors that may have lethal effect on health of women and may cause some diseases. Women may have suffered with many psychological circumstance such as long terms stress due isolation, work burden and insecurity cause changes in the behaviour of females. These…

may feel. Addiction treatment in the US has shaped health care today. An example is Managed Care, which is when the cost of treatment is taken care of by one company and use doctors that are delegated do the treatment. Also, addiction could be understood in a biological manner, the addictive disease model, or in a social or behavioral perspective, behavioral/environmental model, or in a combination of both, the academic model. Those who struggle…