About addiction recovery
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addictions, biomedical model, recoveryAbstract
Addictions continue to be one of the main public health problems worldwide. A
Although the field of addiction prevention and treatment has received a lot of scientific attention, there are still many open debates about the concept of addiction and others that surround it, such as the
There are still many open debates about the concept of addiction and others that surround it, such as the case of recovery through different models. From the biomedical model it is understood that neither remission without treatment nor total cure is possible due to the constant possibility of relapse, proposing total abstinence as the only alternative. However, in the face of this model, the evidence shows the need to establish new theories and models that better explain the multicausal complexity of drug addiction.
the multicausal complexity of addictions, as well as their treatment and prevention, which necessarily involves defining the concept of recovery in addictions.
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