Received View of Addiction, Relapse and Treatment
It is important to highlight that attempts at understanding and explaining addiction have been made for centuries. It is, however, just five decades ago, with the growth of science and technology that more interest has been observed in this field. This ch
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Received View of Addiction, Relapse and Treatment Yamikani Ndasauka, Zhengde Wei, and Xiaochu Zhang
Abstract It is important to highlight that attempts at understanding and explaining addiction have been made for centuries. It is, however, just five decades ago, with the growth of science and technology that more interest has been observed in this field. This chapter examines different views and theories that have been posited to understand and explain addiction. More attention will be given to prominent views that seem to draw consensus among researchers and medical practitioners. The first section of the chapter introduces the addiction debate, the different theories that have been provided to explain it from different perspectives and disciplines such as neurosciences, philosophy and psychology. Then, the chapter discusses different views on the role of relapse and what it entails in understanding addiction. The second section discusses different proposed and used forms of treating addiction. Thus, the chapter discusses the received view of addiction, the understanding of relapse as a critical element in addiction and treatments. Keywords Addiction • Relapse • Treatment
Y. Ndasauka Chancellor College, University of Malawi, Zomba, Malawi School of Humanities & Social Science, University of Science & Technology of China, Hefei, Anhui 230026, China Z. Wei Key Laboratory of Brain Function and Disease, Chinese Academy of Sciences, School of Life Sciences, University of Science & Technology of China, Hefei, Anhui 230027, China X. Zhang (*) Key Laboratory of Brain Function and Disease, Chinese Academy of Sciences, and School of Life Sciences, University of Science & Technology of China, Hefei, Anhui 230027, China School of Humanities & Social Science, University of Science & Technology of China, Hefei, Anhui 230026, China Centers for Biomedical Engineering, University of Science & Technology of China, Hefei, Anhui 230027, China e-mail: [email protected] © Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. 2017 X. Zhang et al. (eds.), Substance and Non-substance Addiction, Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology 1010, DOI 10.1007/978-981-10-5562-1_1
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1.1 Understanding Addiction What is addiction? In this section, we discuss this question as tackled from three different perspectives (psychological, biological and social-cultural perspectives) and demonstrate how each perspective, if independently conceived and propounded falls short in adequately addressing the questions. We will consequently present a nuanced view of addiction, largely accepted among scholars termed biopsychosocial model of addiction, taking into account the three perspectives whilst avoiding the weaknesses of independently holding either. Although this model has been discussed in key literature on addiction, especially substance related addiction, there is minimal discussion of the sociological/cultural perspective in behavioural addictions. This chapter seeks to add to this knowledge gap and will pay much attention to the soci
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