Katie is a long-term heroin user. Her continued drug use is…
Katie is a long-term heroin user. Her continued drug use is explained in that heroin-related cues can now automatically capture Katie’s attention, fostering automatic approach and action tendencies toward the drug. This impulsive system overrides her more rational system, so she cannot inhibit these automatic tendencies. Her continued drug use keeps strengthening the extent to which these cues grab her attention and direct her behavior. Which model of addiction is being described here?