Affiliation:
1. Christ University, India
Abstract
Addiction is considered a result of behaviour that has wandered at many levels, including neurophysiological, genetic predisposition, and environment. By taking a comprehensive approach, community-based initiatives and policy implications call for more than just curing. This chapter outlines the role of typical understanding in addiction treatment, prevention, and recovery. The multi-dimensional addiction behaviour scale, a method for the diagnosis of addictive behaviours, views addiction from different angles, such as psychological factors such as mental illness and genetic dispositions brought to us through biological inheritance and neurobiological changes by long-term drug abuse. Psychological factors, biological factors, social and environmental factors, cognitive and behavioural patterns, motivation and readiness for change are the possible multi-dimensions of addiction behaviour.