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A 3 page research paper that briefly discusses 3 of the principals model of addiction. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
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views addiction. The viewpoints of these models significantly affects how practitioners go about addressing treatment. For example, the psychoanalytic model sees addiction in terms of any one of a number
of "intra-psychic conflicts" (Models, 2006). The social learning model sees addiction as part of a warped socialization process that has been reinforced, while the disease model sees addiction in terms
of physiological malfunction (Models, 2006). Each of these models is examined in more detail below, demonstrating that each one describes and addresses a significant aspect of the addiction process and
how it should be approached in treatment. Defending the disease model of addiction, Kaplan castigates society and public policymakers for failing to define and acknowledge alcoholism and drug
addiction as "chronic relapsing brain diseases that have biological social and psychological manifestations" (Kaplan, 1997, p. 14). As this illustrates, one way of looking at addiction is the disease model.
This model describes addiction management along lines that focus on prevention of addiction through education; identification, by training healthcare providers to spot the signs of addiction; determination of risk and
the development of a treatment plan (Kaplan, 1997). Aeschbach (2006) supports this model of addiction management, as he points out that medications, such as nicotine patches, buprenophine and methadone,
should be regarded as legitimate treatments that help to wean the addicted individual from the abused substance both psychologically and physically. implied in his Aeschbachs comments are his opposition
to the moral model of addiction, which takes a "purist" approach that pictures suffering through withdrawal symptoms as emotionally edifying in some fashion. Part of the purpose of the
various models of addiction is that each one offers a different perspective on what causes addiction. For example, Lo (2003) performed a study that drew upon the social/structure model of
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