Addiction and Age

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Addiction and Age
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Illicit Drug Use
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THE CONCEPT OF ADDICTION
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Problems with the Addiction Concept
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Vietnam vs. Home Environments

• Fear and privation
• -Control
• -Positive options
• -Social support
• -Values of moderation

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• Absorbing
• Predictable
• Sense of control / value
• Illusory
• Deepening / worsening

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an absorbing activity that provides essential
emotional rewards otherwise not available to one
that entails growing life detriments.
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HOW DO PEOPLE REALLY CHANGE?
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Values that Combat Addiction
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BI/MI What Is Common?

• ? Minimal time in therapy
• ? You must change
• ? True to your values
• ? Self-efficacy
• Harm reduction

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• People change the more resources they have
• They are helped by summoning the resources they
  possess
• Treatment assists by helping them gather
  resources
• Treatment not essential

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• Problem solving
• Communication
• Breaking the flow

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• ?Believe that the addictive involvement violates
  more important values.
• ?Want to quit/ and believe you can.
• Develop alternative rewards that are
  more meaningful than addiction.
• ?Find/develop resources in life to maintain
  rewards.

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• Rely on friends, family, and groups to
  help support the change in behavior.
• ?Avoid situations and ways of thinking that
  provoke relapse.
• ?Eventually develop a new self-image, a view of
  oneself as a former addict.
• Develop higher goals than addiction.

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Overcoming addiction means shifting your focus
from your own needs to the needs of other people.
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Instead of writing another book about treating
addiction, Dr. Peele has fashioned a manual for
building a meaningful life.
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Source European Comparative Alcohol Study
Norstöm, T. (Ed.). (2002). Alcohol in postwar
Europe Consumption, drinking patterns,
consequences and policy responses in 15 European
countries. Stockholm SW National Institute of
Public Health, pp. 196-205.