This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium for non-commercial purposes, provided the original author and source are credited
All documents in ORBi are protected by a user license.
Keywords :
Addiction-as-disease approach; Addictive behaviors; Behavioral addictions; Individualized psychosocial formulation; Psychosocial and cultural approaches; Behavior, Addictive; Behavioral Research; Humans; Models, Theoretical
Abstract :
[en] This commentary proposes a complementary perspective to that developed by Billieux, Schimmenti, Khazaal, Maurage and Heeren (2015). The addiction-as-disease approach tends to sideline explanatory factors of a psychosocial, cultural, political, or historical nature. I therefore suggest taking into account not only the personal characteristics (loss of self-control, impulsivity) related to the disease model, but also the social determinants of addictive behaviors (weak social ties, social exclusion, hyperindividualism, poverty, unemployment, etc.). Moreover, the disease model of addiction removes addictive behaviors from the cultural and historical contexts that shape them. I argue that the cultural and historical reasons for which certain factors (such as loss of self-control) became so important in the explanation of addictive behaviors should be more thoroughly considered. © 2015 Akadémiai Kiadó, Budapest.
Scopus citations®
without self-citations
16