MEDIC MODEL

According to this approach, addictive behaviors are based on a small physical addiction and the attention is turned to predisposed physiological factors, which are assumed to be genetically transmittable, as the fist cause of addition. The definitions of alcoholism as a progressive disease that can only be temporarily controlled by total abstinence and approached in this model are:
a) The person non-responsible for the problem, limitations of this model for the treatment, since it is a disease.
b) Needs an external treatment, something that comes from "outside of him" to cure him. The great advantage of this model is that it allows the person to ask and accept help without being blamed for his weaknesses.
From this medical model, different forms of treatment appeared, that would be classified as the clarifying model treatment. The religious therapeutic communities, the self-help groups like NA, AA are examples of the medical clarifying model.

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