Portrait Of Addiction Summary

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The Disease model stance is that addiction can be managed but is never curable (Lewis, 2014). Furthermore, if an addict continues to abuse their drug of choice, they mental or physical facilities are inhibited and any reason is nonexistent. Overtime, the damage to the brain can become permanent. The function of the neurotransmitters can be destroyed not allowing for them to split from the terminal burton towards the postsynaptic receptors (Capella, 2016).

In the video, Portrait of Addiction, the african american women summed up sobriety as not something that she could commit to the rest of her life, but could for that moment. It is important to understand that sobriety is a choice and it is a choice for that moment and a person must

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