Total CE Credit Hours: 2
Course Info URL: https://www.addictioncounselorce.com/courses/102450
About the Course:
Normative thinking about addiction has traditionally been divided between, on the one hand, a medical model which sees addiction as a disease characterized by compulsive and relapsing drug use over which the addict has little or no control and, on the other, a moral model which sees addiction as a choice characterized by voluntary behavior under the control of the addict. Proponents of the former appeal to evidence showing that regular consumption of drugs causes persistent changes in the brain structures and functions known to be involved in the motivation of behavior. On this evidence, it is often concluded that becoming addicted involves a transition from voluntary, chosen drug use to non-voluntary compulsive drug use. Against this view, proponents of the moral model provide ample evidence that addictive drug use involves voluntarily chosen behavior. In this article, we argue that although they are right about something, both views are mistaken. We present a third model that neither rules out the view of addictive drug use as compulsive nor that it involves voluntarily chosen behavior.
This course is based on the reading-based online article, Addiction As a Choice? created by Edmund Henden, PhD. and Stanton Peele, PhD in 2018.
Publication Date:
June 2018
Course Material Authors
Course Creator
Recommended For:
Counselors, marriage and family therapists, psychologists and social workers. This course is appropriate for all levels of knowledge.
Course Objectives:
Acknowledge the philosophical and economic theory behind free will and addiction.
Identify the current medical based theory of addiction and its pitfalls.
Extrapolate that the vast majority of clients abstain from substances or reduce their use in natural recovery without any formal treatment.
Addiction: choice or compulsion?
References begin on page 10.
Addiction: choice or compulsion?
People Control Their Addictions
References begin on page 100.
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