Thinking Aloud

The example we gave, which is a topic of a dozen of long articles, illustrates well that simple questions provide for simple and, therefore, verifiable answers. But yet the value of these answers is nearly inversely proportional to their simplicity degree. In the former Soviet Union so-called aversion therapy is still popular. In the article: Sofronov, A. G. 2003 “The Up-to-Date Problems of the National Addictology” Narkologiya (3): 2–6., its origins are well-described as “explained therapy”. The idea of this approach long ago abandoned in the Western world  (in the reference literature in English I’ve found on-line only one article of 1964) is based on a very simple method: relate alcohol consumption to the vomiting reflex.

To begin with this fragment we’d like to note one evident problem we constantly have analyzing the higher spheres of human activities. Generally, the psychology as well as other social sciences always face a difficult dilemma. On the one hand, the scientific status, which like a burden is carried by the same psychology or sociology, requires knowledge convertibility and nearly mathematical precision. On the other hand, from the same mathematical point of view the brain and the inner world of a human is such a complex system that can’t match a mathematical body, even if all data is available. The phrase “even if all data is available” is a bolder presumption then the presence of any such mathematical body. Alas, modelling a human is a faraway future challenge. Maybe then the answer will be given if it’s possible at all.

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

Redish, A. D., Steve Jensen, and Adam Johnson. 2008. A unified framework for addiction: vulnerabilities in the decision process. The article gives a summary of some theoretical approaches explaining the essence of the addiction. The authors describe seven major types of such theories.
(1) Оpponent processes. This approach is, first of all, related to the studies of the National Institute on Drug Abuse under the supervision of Nora Volkow and George Koob. It’s main point is that the impact of alcohol and other drugs on the reward center changes its functioning, which results the replacing homeostasis, the natural harmony of neurobiological processes in the body with allostasis, the adaptation of neurotransmitter system to drug administration followed by the regulation of the process by this system. In particular, these mechanisms are used to explain the withdrawal syndrome that happens after an abrupt withdrawal from alcohol consumption

Drinking much alcohol can be an attempt to play a part , but finds unattainable in sobriety state That is, the triggering mechanism of an addiction, may be the underestimation of a person’s self or the desire to overcome the traits that are considered as disadvantages and weaknesses. We speak here of another trigger of the addiction, of the initial stage of alcoholism, of one of a bunch of which they say the reasons are many, but the disease course is one. Nevertheless, a human’s adjustment as such, the adjustment to the external environment deserves being studied. This new structure usually consists of several levels.