addiction Flashcards
17th century disease models
lack of moral fibre
alcohol held in high esteem
people held accountable for behaviour - free choice and responsibility
punished not treated
19th century disease models
biomedical approach
alcohol destructive and evil
20th century disease models
alcohol only a problem for those who drink in excess and become addicted
excess linked to physical/psych abnormalities and an acquired dependency
irreversible - treatment via abstinence
addiction as discrete entities
either alcoholic or not
problem with disease model
abstinence
unrealistic
prone to fail
problem with disease model
relapse
not considered
all or nothing
liable to self fulfilling prophecy
davies and sobel (1970) alt to abstinence
treat via controlled drinking
can return to normal levels
LEARN
social learning approach to addiction
volkow 2016
not everyone becomes addicted
susceptibility based on genetic, environ, + dev vulnerabilities
addictions are habits - can relearn
who gets addicted
only around 10% of those exposed to a drug become addicted with the most severe characteristics
cog processes of addiction involved in SLT
attributions intent self esteem self efficacy control coping mechanisms anticipated regret
classical conditioning paradigm
associations of drugs with being social ie alcohol
associations with the context/atmosphere
operant conditioning paradigm
pos rienforcement from the drug itself
pos rienforcement socially
neg rienforcement socially - easier
neg rienforce with the drug - remove withdrawal
observational learning/modelling
watching sig others perform the beh
more likely to acquire the beh ourselves
lader and matheson 1991
modelling
child x2 more likely smoke if parent does
mixing the SLT and disease models
disease models explain how we get addicted and build tolerance/withdrawal
- bioloogical
- role of corticostriatal reward circuitry and habit learning
BUT can explain what makes people try the drug in the first place
SLT - why people try and why people continue initially
wilson and abraham 2004
AIM
role of psychosocial variables in adolescent smoking
wilson and abraham 2004
method
BL and 6m
UK comprehensive school children
13-14/o
Q on TPB variables, inentions to smoke, current likelihood and external variables
wilson and abraham 2004
external variables
parental support age ses personality sex ethnicity income
wilson and abraham 2004
RESULTS
PREVALENCE AFTER 6M
reduce if never tried
increase if tried or smoked at baseline