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Risk Factors - Coggle Diagram

- - - - Increased stress = increased likelihood of addiction
        
        Chronic stress or a traumatic event leads to vulnerability = likelihood for addiction
        
        The stress of quitting the addiction reinforces the maintenance of the addiction
- - - - Positive attitudes and experimentation will lead to developing addiction
        
        Addicts blame initiation for their addiction and the maintenance to do with peer pressure
  - - - EG = GAMBLING - more gambling shops in areas of deprivation - THEREFORE = not only peer but also SOCIAL environments
- - - - Children view the behaviour or drug as positive = more likely to do it
        
        Parents have no or little interest in the adolescent and child witness this = more liekly to develop an addiction
        
        SOCIAL LEARNING THEORY = parents drink everyday, children will imitate and drink everyday
  - - - Parents usually approve of teh drug use and children go onto using it
    - - Cognitive influences which will influence behaviour
        
        Take cognition into account
- - - - Gene-environment interaction = leads to development of addiction
        
        One does not inherit addiction we are predisposed to it