PSY407H1 Chapter Notes - Chapter N/A: Rat Park, Medicalization, Child Abuse
Document Summary
The rise and fall of the official view of addiction summary. Confessions and plea to the high court in the field of addiction. Official view of addiction aka the brain disease model of addiction aka the nida model. Current view of addiction is wrong and needs replacing. Proposing the dislocation theory of addiction be the model we use. Dislocation theory draws attention to social causes of addiction that can only be fixed through deep changes in the status quo of society. Addiction (pre-modern times definition): the state or condition of being dedicated or devoted to a thing, especially an activity or occupation; adherence or attachment, especially of an immoderate or compulsive kind. Addiction in this time could be positive (addicted to family/church). Now addiction is tied into sickness, moral failure, drug/alcohol use, etc. When opium was legal, users were not considered sick, only after time were they considered addicted" in the sense that we use the word today.
