Commentary Open Access
Volume 5 | Issue 1 | DOI: https://doi.org/10.33696/mentalhealth.5.041
Addiction and Health: Social Perspectives for Addiction Prevention and Addiction Support
Knut Tielking1,*
- 1University of Applied Sciences, Hochschule Emden/Leer, Emden, Deutschland
Corresponding Author
Knut Tielking, knut.tielking@hs-emden-leer.de
Received Date: April 25, 2025
Accepted Date: May 28, 2025
Tielking K. Addiction and Health: Social Perspectives for Addiction Prevention and Addiction Support. J Ment Health Disord. 2025;5(1):80-83.
Copyright: © 2025 Tielking K. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
Abstract
The article aims to show that a social perspective on addiction as a disease in the sense of a bio-psycho-social understanding of health and disease can meaningfully broaden the often medical view of addiction problems and contribute to addressing addiction as a social problem in a way that reduces stigma.
Keywords
Health promotion, Prevention, Addiction, Addiction prevention, Addiction support
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