Cocaine Treatment: Models of Cocaine Addiction

Disease Model

After the successful repeal of Prohibition in the United States, a new viewpoint from which to view AODA was needed. In 1935, the same year Alcoholics Anonymous was founded by Bill W. and Dr. Bob, the American Disease perspective was developed primarily from the assertion that AODA is a unique, irreversible, and progressive disease. The belief of those who support this model is that while alcoholism and addiction cannot be cured, however, such conditions can be arrested by abstaining from the substance the individual is addicted to.

Causal Factors

1. Abnormal traits inherint in the individual
   
2. Constitutional disease or disorder

Suggested Courses of Treatment

1. Identification and confrontation of the condition
2. Lifelong abstinence

Treatment Specialists

1. Other Recovering Individuals
2. Peer Support Groups (Alcoholics Anonymous, Narcotics Anonymous)

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