Compare And Contrast The Medical Model Of Addiction

In the first week, I what addiction is, why addiction, and treatment for addiction. Addiction is any behavior that gives temporary relieve in a short time, but in the long run causes harm (Maté, 2010) which makes me think of my own addiction to eye poking. I poke my eyes to get temporary gratification from boredom, loneliness, and this has been going on for over thirty years. I am sure that there must be damage done to my eye if the optometrist should check it. I remember a day I poked my eyes with a razor blade and cut the white part of my eyeball, it bled, and the eye was okay after couple of days. This did not stop me from poking my eyes, I continued with this dangerous behavior even after knowing the consequences. One thing that touched
The medical model of addiction believe that addiction is a brain disease where there is imbalance in neurotransmitters. This model assumes that there are three components to the disease, which are the agent, vector, and the host. This theory says the agent is the drug, vector the dealers, while the host is the addict and to cure the disease, someone will have to eliminate the drugs.
Psychodynamic model of addiction believe that drug abuse is self medicating and that there are some underlying psychological problems, which if the internal conflict is resolved, there will not be any need to use drugs. I particularly like the psychodynamic model of addiction because it talks about the root cause of addiction, which is unresolved internal conflict. Looking back to my addiction of eye poking, I believe something would have triggered poking my eye and I think I started the destructive behavior when my dad was mean to me as a child and would call me names in
At the precontemplation stage, clients are happy with where they are with the addiction and they do not want to change. Similarly, some of the reasons why client resist treatment is sometimes because of denial and hopelessness that they can never stay free from addiction, deprived from, or entitlement to drugs. In the case study of Sam, who is a marijuana and crack cocaine addict, his wife had booked him in for treatment because his drug used was getting out of control. However, Sam did not see his behavior as a problem, but saw his wife as controlling. Sam was defensive that he denied his drugs addiction was causing problems for