Introduction
Addiction is characterized by an overwhelming compulsion, drug craving, drug seeking and drug using behavior with detrimental effects. West (2006) refers to it as a reward seeking behavior that can produce undesirable and harmful effects to the individual addict. The theoretical perspectives about addiction often relate this maladaptive behavior as one that involves the person’s motivational system, cravings, impulses, perceived needs and caused by psychological and neurobiological problems (Hanson, Venturelli, and Fleckenstein, 2006). Theories of addiction focus on underpinning certain hypothesis that can explain the underlying cause of addiction and to identify the most appropriate approach to addiction Continue reading...