Based on your knowledge of the bio-psych-social model does the social environmental aspect of the model have a greater influence on substance use engagement than biological and psychological component of the model? Be specific with your answer.

Sights and sounds of External Environmental Stimuli influencing Behavior

Reflect on what you learned about the Bio (genetic family history)-Psycho (learned behavior)-Social (environmental influences) Model pertaining to addictive behavior and specifically apply the social “environmental influences” part of the model to the songs opening line, “It’s like a jungle sometimes.It makes me wonder how I keep from going under!?”

Questions:

1. “It’s like a jungle sometimes. It makes me wonder how I keep from going under!?”
How can being exposed to external social stimuli (sights, sounds and smells) of an environment have a proclivity of influencing an individual’s decision to engage in substance use?

2. Based on your knowledge of the bio-psych-social model does the social environmental aspect of the model have a greater influence on substance use engagement than biological and psychological component of the model? Be specific with your answer.

3. In your opinion, can using substances become a justifiable defensive mechanism to cope and temporarily escape environmental ills of societal injustices. Or is an environment used as an excuse to use substances? Support your answer with cogent examples.

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