Your grade will reflect both the quality of your initial post and the depth of your responses. Before you begin, please reference the Discussion Forum Grading Rubric for guidance on how your discussion will be evaluated.

Much of our text reading this week focuses on substance use and addictive disorders. the Annals of Behavioral Medicine or Behavioral Medicine publications. The instructions below will assist you in your search.

Read and discuss one or more articles published within the last five years in the journal listed above. If you do not generate an appropriate article in the Annals of Behavioral Medicine or in the journal Behavioral Medicine, remove the journal titles and complete a general search for your disorder. Be sure to check the boxes next to “Limit to Full Text” and “Limit to Scholarly / Peer Reviewed”.

Utilizing the biopsychosocial perspective, explain the substance-related or addictive disorder and your research (reference article) through the model of health psychology. In your posting, analyze how the following factors potentially contribute to risk for developing a substance use disorder synthesizing research regarding these factors in order to support your statements.

• Biological factors
• Psychosocial aspects
• Prevention of the disorder
• Treatment of the disorder
• Reasons for relapse

Your initial post should be a minimum of 300 words and include appropriate citations Provide all resources as references in APA format.