
One of the piquant things about studying addiction is that nobody can agree on a definition.
The biopsychosocial model of looking at addiction is an attempt to broaden the older, primitive belief of addiction as strictly a medical predicament. It was understanding that by forcing people to explore at it in a multidimensional aspect accuracy of diagnosis and treatment could be improved.
The medical people had their hurry on it, the 12-step people had their definition, and neurobiological scientists are starting to inspect recent features. A more comprehensive device of looking at things is the biopsychosocial model of addiction. What exactly is that?
Well, the clue is in the name. It is an attempt to relate the complexity of the interaction of biological, psychological, and social features of addiction. They are basically saying they each component is insufficient unto its beget to define addiction.







