Alternative Models of Addiction

• Main Author: Bennett Foddy (auth)
• Other Authors: Serge H. Ahmed (auth), Hanna Pickard (auth)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: Frontiers Media SA 2015
• Series: Frontiers Research Topics
• Subjects: Medicine; compulsion; Addiction; Disease; drugs; Self-Control; choice; substance abuse; substance dependence
• Online Access: DOAB: download the publication; DOAB: description of the publication

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...