Ch6 theories of addiction - Study guides, Class notes & Summaries

Psychological theories - Psychological theories examine the experience of drug dependency from within the context of an individual's behavior - Alternative to the notion that drug dependency is a unitary disease with a specific cause - Focuses on observable behaviours of drug use, how the behaviour is learned, modified, and reinforced, and that there may be some psychological component that predisposes an individual to an accelerated pattern of use Learning theory - Learning is a...