2016 Koppel JDS. This is an open-access short article distributed under the regards to the Creative Commons Attribution License, which allows unrestricted usage, circulation, and reproduction in any medium, provided the initial author and source are credited. The moral and medical models, the dominant paradigms of drug dependency, disagree on the concern of obligation. The medical model views it as the habits of a' pirated' brain. Amid efforts to decarcerate American jails, the relative merits of these 2 designs are being weighed. Which raises the concern of whether policy- makers must be resigned to selecting one side of the ethical/ medical dichotomy. In this commentary, the moral and medical models will be critically assessed, and an alternative 3rd method, a multi-level design, recommended. The crucial difference between them is where they put blame for an addicts' behavior: the ethical model views drug addiction as the choice of a free and autonomous individual; the

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