Drug Addiction Case Study

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After reviewing the interview footage, what do you think were the principle factors that induced Bobbie to abuse drugs?
Drug addiction is a disease that is hard to stop. Drugs will change your brain, make you crave them and make it almost impossible to quit. Drug use starts with a decision to use them on their own, usually to escape a situation or fit in (National Institute of on Drug Abuse, 2016). After listening to Bobbie speak, I think the principle factors that induced her to abuse drugs included not have a family structure with discipline, looking for a family tie with others who were abusing alcohol and drugs, being sexually abused at a young age, and wanting to feel loved and fit in (MH Education, 2016).

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The medical model labels addiction as a disease and that the addicts have no control over it. The way to overcome the addiction is to completely cut the drug out of their life, and to never use it again. Whereas the harm reduction model does not consider addiction a disease, but a behavior that pares psychological socio-cultural processes. In order to beat addiction, it focuses on helping the addict change their behavior. First they go through detox to expel the drugs. This process may introduce new drugs to help them fight their cravings and physical symptoms. Then they are treated for their addiction with therapy. Sometimes they are given methadone to help heroin addicts, which can lead to a methadone addiction (MH Education, 2016). I believe the medical model is a more appropriate way to treat substance abuse. It actually encourages the addict to not use drugs, to get them out of their body, and to have the mindset not to use again. The harm reduction model only changes they type of drug they are addicted to, still leaving them with an addiction. While they both have a risk of abusing again, I think having a clean start, doing the work, and excepting you cannot use any drug, is the best option overall for a clean

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