"The research presented today demonstrates how animal models can provide insight into even complex human behaviors, such as opioid addiction and relapse, and work toward new biology-based ...

For example, if one is addicted to cocaine ... These questions lead into a broader model of addiction, which breaks down into two diagnoses. Primary illness: clinical depression.

Consider someone addicted to alcohol, drugs, or a behavior like gambling. Why do they continue, even when they say they want to stop? It's a question that highlights a fundamental disconnect: the gap ...

for example, in quelling them. Unresolved needs can make drug taking relevant indefinitely. Most alternatives to the brain disease model of addiction share the view that explanations of addiction ...

52 For example, strategies to enhance the salience ... A compelling argument for the translational value of the brain disease model of addiction is the knowledge that the prefrontal and other ...

The Biopsychosocial Model So how are we conceptualizing the cause of addiction? The multifaceted disorder needs a multifaceted conceptualization, and we find that in the biopsychosocial model of ...

For example, addiction can be considered a loss ... together with the increasing predictive value of animal models of addiction, makes it increasingly feasible to fill in the missing pieces ...

And what have we done? Put money in the same system that has failed. The traditional model of treating addiction is inpatient. If someone has addiction, they are sent for detoxification and ...

For example, in the initial stages of substance ... Wiers instead suggests considering a model in which addiction is a 'biased choice' – a model that embraces the neurobiological findings ...

The disease model of addiction seems to ignore the contemporary emphasis on neuroplasticity, the brain’s changeability. Even the nucleus accumbens, a brain structure responsible for motivated ...