Moral Model Of Addiction

The moral model states that addictions are the result of human weakness, and are defects of a persons character. People who don't agree with the moral model , often have scant sympathy for people with serious addictions. They believe either that a person with greater moral strength could have the will to break an addiction, or that the addict showed a great moral failure in the first place by starting the addiction. The moral model is applied to dependency on illegal substances, perhaps purely for social or political reasons, but is no longer widely considered to have any therapeutic value. Elements of the moral model, especially a individual choices, have found lasting roles in other approaches to the treatment of dependencies. "http://psychology.wikia.com/wiki/Models