TY - SER TI - Adicciones y procesos de aprendizaje SN - 0210-5020 N1 - Este artículo se encuentra disponible en su edición impresa; Bibliografía: p. 39 N2 - The implication of learning factors and mechanisms in the behaviors of addiction to toxic substances is shown. Classical and operant conditioning has shown, over time and empirical evidence, an extraordinary capacity to offer rigorous explanations, both for the acquisition and maintenance of behavior, allowing corrective measures to be established that structure behavior sequences of greater adaptability. in the middle. Likewise, the importance of extinction processes is highlighted as essential elements in the treatment or intervention on drug addiction. In our country, the intervention on drug addicts is characterized mainly by the mastery of techniques that underlie the medical model of getting sick. Psychology does not escape this. For this reason, we offer a synthesis based on the principles of conditioning that will allow health personnel to acquire a vision of the problem from a purely psychological paradigm ER -