Psychiatr. pro Praxi, 2009; 10(6): 257-259

Pathogenesis of addiction

Mgr. Petra Elizabeth Váchová¹, MUDr. Luboš Janů Ph.D², MUDr. Sylva Racková²

¹ Lékařská fakulta UK v Plzni

² Psychiatrická klinika FN a LF UK v Plzni

Dependence is a complex chronic desease of CNS, the creation reasons of which are multifactorial. A lot of different views on origin and

background of addiction as a desease exist. Addiction is a complex interdisciplinary problem, therefore more than one explanation of

addictive behaviour origin can be found in a specialized literature. Despite the fact that preference is given to biological theories currently,

also other theses play an important role in searching for predisposited factors of a desease called addiction.

During the ambulatory treatment it is surely difficult to cover all factors responsible for starting long term abuse, addiction. It is complicated

to eliminate them through pharmacological or psychological way or prevent them. This article should offer a short and transparent

excursion to the roots of dependence and thus enable a subsequent search for an efficient therapy.

Keywords: discent approach, homeostasis codependence, macro environment, micro environment, NAc, Piaget, attachement theory, transaction analysis, trigger.

Published: December 1, 2009  Show citation