We regularly hear in the media as alcoholism, drug addiction is a disease. “I am not responsible for a disease”, said the drug … Without denying the therapeutic value of this concept is much more a factor of removing guilt, a scientific certainty, extensive research currently tend to consider substance abuse as a problem of lifestyle revolving around the overuse of psychotropic substances.
This habit learned (and not innate) aims to overcome the difficulties of life and lack of satisfaction at the individual, through a narrowing of the latter’s capacity to cope with the events of his life and acquire, otherwise than by the psychoactive, a real pleasure.
The use of psychotropic effect, a selective reinforcement and simultaneously, to eliminate some unpleasant experiences (eg, the chicanery of household as I drown in alcohol) and amplify those are nice (well – be felt by alcohol). Thus the individual is subjected to the experience that makes him live psychotropics. That’s the concept of addiction.
This theory is very important in that it shows that the abuses associated with the consumption of alcohol or drugs does not fall from heaven as could be disease, but is rather the result of a process, the ‘culmination of attitudes that are a function of personality, motivations, past experiences and social and cultural environment of the consumer. (more…)
