Students are required to critically analyse the impact the Disease Model of addiction has on current addiction treatment models and intervention approaches.

Introduction    1
What is the disease model of addiction?    1
Conclusion    5
Reference    6
Introduction
Nationwide, drug use is on the rise. In a poll conducted in 2020, more than 35% of teenagers admitted to using marijuana in the previous 12 months. There are several causes for the rise of addiction. One is the disregard for those who are addicted. Many individuals believe that using drugs is a moral issue that can be resolved with sheer determination (Barnett et al,2018).
However, that is untrue. Several experts agree that addiction is a disease with many potential therapies.
What kind of model is it? How does it stack up against other models? What does the addiction disease model entail? Individuals may improve their knowledge about addiction rehabilitation by providing answers to these questions (Mpanga & Namirembe,2022).
What is the disease model of addiction?
According to the illness model of addiction, addiction is a biological problem. It is a chronic illness with a variety of causes, including hereditary and environmental factors.
Diabetes and other chronic illnesses are genetically based. You will likely get diabetes if one of your parents or grandparents did (Barnett et al,2018).
Addiction follows a similar path. According to research from the National Institute on Drug and Substance Abuse, half of an individual's vulnerability to drug addiction is thought to be predetermined by their genes. The Institute is continuing its investigation, but they are discovering genes that are common among addicts.
Numerous illnesses may be brought on by elements in a person's home or work environment. Cancer or respiratory conditions may develop as a consequence of exposure to harmful substances. A lack of friends may cause memory loss (Mpanga & Namirembe,2022).
Addiction may result from a few environmental variables. To deal with trauma, some individuals turn to narcotics. Some people start taking drugs after seeing their buddies do so.
The activities necessary to address the problems of substance and alcoholic beverage misuse are not included in the models utilised by alcohol and drug abuse centres. In order to enhance illness prevention and intervention, counsellors must develop a new disease model inside the rehabilitation practice (Hogarth,2022). They should focus on helping people cut down on their usage of alcohol and drugs.
Counsellors must research and create comprehensive drug intervention plans that are drug-specific to the current addiction. No one size fits everyone. Methamphetamine addicts should be given different care than heroin addicts. The want or urge for drugs is comparable, but the field must be flexible enough to accept individual variances within the addiction therapy paradigm (Mpanga & Namirembe,2022).
In the late 18th and early 19th centuries, several Americans started to acknowledge having an alcohol addiction. They acknowledged that they could not control their craving for drinking. They saw alcohol addiction as an illness that might strike at any time and endure indefinitely, depending on the person (Mpanga & Namirembe,2022).
Alcoholism is classified as a medical disease under this model definition. There is something out of the ordinary that causes behavioural impairment. Alcohol cravings are uncontrollable for the person. All functions gradually deteriorate to the point that the person has no choice but to take action and seek therapy or other forms of constructive assistance (Kime,2018).
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