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👉The Disease Model Of Addiction Pdf

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Define addiction, substance abuse, and substance dependence. Identify contributing factors for addiction. Explain the biological neural pathways that underlie addiction. The concept of . The scientific foundation of the “Disease Model” of substance abuse (known today as the “Medical Model of Addiction”) rests on three following principles: • Addiction is a medical disorder . Advances in neuroscience have helped us understand how drugs affect the brain, leading to the recognition that addiction is a chronic brain disorder that can be treated.1 The brain disease .  The brain disease model of addiction has contributed greatly to the current view of substance use disorders. Understanding the neurobiological changes that the brain undergoes has allowed for developments of novel intervention and prevention methods, while also providing overall stigma reduction. Advances in neuroscience have helped us understand how drugs affect the brain, leading to the recognition that addiction is a chronic brain disorder that can be treated.1 The brain disease model of addiction is less stigmatizing than the view of addiction as a moral failing, and it brings hope that medications can be developed to address the dis. For the next several weeks, our task is to explore the various models that psychologists and others have developed to aid us in our understanding of addiction. We begin this week with what have come to be known as the disease models.