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Whether the topic is addictive behavior, infections or fractures, the traditional view of treatment in a medical model is that it addresses the cause of the disorder and either returns the person to normal functioning or helps the individual achieve a reasonable accommodation to a disability. For treatment of withdrawal Symptoms, the medical model is defensible — the disorder has a known physiological basis, the treatment derives from that knowledge, and the treatment is reliably effective. For other aspects of addictive behavior, especially compulsive use, the model’s fit is very questionable. The basis for the behavior is neither understood nor necessarily physiological (although drug effects have a physiological basis, this does not mean that the ‘cause’ of their use is physiological).
The problem is all inside your head she said to mi, The answer is easy if you take it logically ... There must be fifty ways to leave yor lover. Paul Simon, ’50 Ways to Leave Your Lover’, 1975
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Klingemann, H. et al. (2001). One way to leave your lover: the role of treatment in changing addictive behavior. In: Promoting Self-Change from Problem Substance Use. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-010-0922-5_7
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