CAS 154 Chapter Notes - Chapter 3: Drug Tolerance, Making Money, American Psychiatric Association
2 Jul 2017
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The moral model: addiction is a consequence of a personal choice. Chapter 3: models of addiction: religious or spiritual intervention is necessary to change behavior, acceptance of a particular religious persuasion is a necessary step to overcome. Sociocultural models of addiction: focuses on factors external to individual (cultural, religious, family, and peers, adolescence in mid-1990s created period of self-doubt and social anxiety, aod helped alleviate self-doubt and anxiety while enhancing social interaction. Yellow = important concepts: withdrawal symptoms reinforcing, causing psychological or physical pain. Blue = important events/works: national institute on drug abuse (nida) determined two key phenomena associated with addiction: drug tolerance and drug craving. Disadvantages of the disease concept: people may feel like they don"t fit within the disease model , removing responsibility from the addict may show that they are powerless , if they relapse, they give up because they can"t maintain abstinence. Biopsychosocial model of addiction: understanding history and background of each patient, analyze all factors.
