Perspectives on Addiction

Introduction:As you identified in your readings and from looking over the Addiction Perspectives interactive, there are three broad perspectives under which the various models of addiction may be organized. They are:

Moral.
Disease.
Maladaptive Behavior.

Instructions:

Identify and describe the characteristics of each of these three broad perspectives. Specifically focus on the features that make them distinct and logically exclusive from one another.
Describe what you would consider to be the advantages and disadvantages of each perspective.

Special Instructions:

Create a 1 page essay in APA format according to the instructions above. Use 2 scholarly sources for references. Be sure to use in-text ciations.

REQUIREMENTS

addictions l perspectives 1 pages, Double Spacing

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Perspectives on Addiction

There are three major perspectives that are used to organize the different models of addiction. They include moral, disease, and maladaptive behavior (Grossman, Chaloupka, & Sirtalan, 2014). The moral model of addiction is the refusal by an individual to abide by various codes of ethics of morals that are expected of them. These individuals make decisions that are considered to be injurious to their welfare and those of others. The disease model is where the addiction leads to ailments among the victims or addicts. This is mainly due to the physiological and psychological mechanisms that are altered by the addiction.

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