pure impulsiveness

(5) Another heap of approaches to the unhealthy consumption of alcohol can be related to understanding it as pure impulsiveness. We can recall our previous remarks about the compulsiveness of the alcohol consumption. We just add that both impulsiveness and compulsiveness are most literal translations of alcoholics’ experience that can be an unexplainable process to them.
(6) The opposite approach is the rational model explaining the addictive behavior as a purely conscious choice. We used to discuss the turns and twists of this approach before. We’ll give it some additional attention a bit later when we’ll talk about the deviant approach. We note here only one very important point. The relationship between the physical pleasure and the success is a matter of philosophic questions, and any individual case will always be a choice. Another thing is that we can speculatively assume that the historical experience is always richer than an individual’s one, and the wisdom worked out collectively isn’t just a sample, but also a certain ideal to play an important role in the choice of a person.
(7) The imbalance between the goal-setting and the force of a habit.

The above-discussed article has an interesting thought that all the above-mentioned approaches have been worked out by different academic schools and, what more important, within the frameworks of different disciplines. Still the authors think (and we agree with them) all these theories and hypotheses not only describe the same thing – the addiction, – but also can be mutually convertible. In other words, they don’t need a metatheory for themselves and can be used together to explain this complex phenomenon. To finish the analysis of this range of approaches we shall mention one more important issue. One should distinguish between three complexes of processes. (a) Trigger mechanisms. In the case of alcohol (in contrast to other drugs), there are two subtypes: normal use we analyzed before and the initial addiction. (b) Supporting mechanisms. (c) And finally, a thing that can be medically described as complication. As an example, we can mention allostasis that results from an addiction and later becomes an independent element of this complex and multifactor area.