This outlook is directly related to the implementation of expensive and unsuccessful drug policies as it focuses solely on neural mechanisms as opposed to behavioral and psychosocial factors.

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In a drug addiction context, brain disease suggests there is a significant brain dysfunction that is detectable and explained by discrepancies in drug use between addicts and non-addicts. 

Brain disease model of addiction in Health Psychology

Grifell , M., &amp; Hart, C. L. (2018). Is Drug Addiction a Brain Disease? https://doi.org/file:///C:/Users//OneDrive/Desktop/Research%20proposal/Drug%20addiction%20is%20not%20brain%20disease.pdf 

Is Drug addiction a Brain Disease? 

Sociocultural limitations of drug addiction as a brain disease

- Sociocultural
- Dosing regimens are not representative 
- Effects of long-term administration of drug use are not conclusive                                     
- Positron Emission Tomography (PET)  is not enough evidence
- Experimental designs are limited to establishing cause and effect 
- Physiological evidence overlaps and is not necessarily clinically significant
- Imaging techniques and clinical assessment are not representative
 

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