Alternative Models of Addiction

• Main Authors: Bennett Foddy, Serge H. Ahmed, Hanna Pickard
• Format: eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Frontiers Media SA 2015
• Series: Frontiers Research Topics
• Subjects: Addiction; choice; compulsion; Disease; drugs; Medicine and Nursing; R5-920; RC435-571; Self-Control; substance abuse; substance dependence

For much of the 20th century, theories of addictive behaviour and motivation were polarized between two models. The first model viewed addiction as a moral failure for which addicts are rightly held responsible and judged accordingly. The second model, in contrast, viewed addiction as a specific bra...