Researches believe that just as there is one disorder or disease labeled asthma, there would be one for addiction, covering all addictions; gambling, smoking, overeating, drugs, etc. It is also come to notice that addiction is both a behavior which can be controlled to some extent and also a brain disease. Plus, since some testing with functional magnetic resonance imaging (FMRI) found that all addictions tend to cause nearly the same reactions inside the brain, there could be one type of control model for addiction health-related issues. Then one main treatment strategy or plan could be used to treat all addictions.
There are quite many essential components of addiction that are considered non-biological. These include cultural and social values, situational factors, ritual, developmental variations, personality differences and cognitive bias. One has to get the hang of the reality of addiction, all of these components must be considered and understood.
The risk of addiction can develop in any of the domains of influence such as the community, family, school and friends. Environmental risk factors are characteristics in a person’s surroundings that increase their likelihood of becoming addicted to drugs. A person is surrounded by such kind of a environment. Read more...