Contrast the medical model of addiction with the criminal model of addiction
What will be an ideal response?
• The medical model of addiction is an approach to drug addiction that treats drug abuse as a mental illness
• Those who believe in the medical model of addiction advocate treating addiction as a disease and hold that society should not punish addicts but rather attempt to rehabilitate them, as would be done for any other unhealthy person
• The criminal model of addiction is an approach to drug abuse that treats illegal drug use as a criminal act
• The criminal justice system tends to favor the criminal model of addiction over the medical model, as this model holds that drug abusers and addicts endanger society with their behavior and should be punished the same as any other persons who commit crimes that are not drug related
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What will be an ideal response?
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