Theory of Addiction and Recovery

For this assignment, you will develop a paper that describes your own personal theory of addiction and
recovery. Special emphasis should be placed on integrating a personal model of recovery that can serve as a basis for guiding your work with clients moving forward. Underlying assumptions should be clearly delineated and supported with an empirical literature. The paper should be comprehensive and complete and no more than 12 pages. How you do this is ultimately up to you. It may, for example, describe how addictions begin, what contributes to people becoming addicted to different substances, how recovery should be best determined, and what types of treatment will work best for what types of people. Another approach has been to create a program and answer these questions in a how-things-will-be-done format. The actual text of the paper is 12 pages. You may exclude counting the cover page and references against this number.