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anythingoes477 · M
@Xuan12 But many can eat what they want their cholesterol stays low for life-=-hence no heart disease. And...heart disease can occur on it's own--even in babies who have eaten nothing--just born with it. I see your general point---but it's not the same. One does not choose to get heart disease--but they do choose to ty drugs for the first time.
Xuan12 · 31-35, M
@anythingoes477 But for many individuals it is the same case. Some people can also take drugs and not get addicted. Some are born addicted to drugs. The way in which one becomes diseased doesn't change that they have a disease. A person could choose to expose themselves to bacteria and become ill as a result. Still diseased. Personal responsibility, or lack thereof, still leaves the disease.
anythingoes477 · M
@Xuan12 Good point---but if one is "diseased" by choice---and I think the defining difference is did I just get that and it's no fault of my own-------or did I choose to put myself in a spot where now I am sick---is the difference.
Picklebobble2 · 56-60, M
https://addictionsandrecovery.org/is-addiction-a-disease.htm
Numerous articles like this from the five minute research i did just now.
If you read, it seems to [i]like[/i] to link addiction to disease as a way of either trying to get funding for research or maybe as a way of trying to get 'addicts/sufferers' to look at their addiction in terms of [i]them having a disease that needs treating[/i] rather than the '[b]you did this to yourself ![/b] approach.
Numerous articles like this from the five minute research i did just now.
If you read, it seems to [i]like[/i] to link addiction to disease as a way of either trying to get funding for research or maybe as a way of trying to get 'addicts/sufferers' to look at their addiction in terms of [i]them having a disease that needs treating[/i] rather than the '[b]you did this to yourself ![/b] approach.
whowasthatmaskedman · 70-79, M
Addiction needs to be treated medically as a disease because it changes the brains chemistry and interferes with its ability to make rational decisions. Therefore, once in the addiction cycle a person not longer has the full cognitive skill set to work themselves out of it.. HOWEVER!. The decision to take that first step was an open informed choice. For this reason I am against being able to use addiction or the effects of drugs and alcohol as a mitigating factor in crime. A drunk driver made a choice way back when, which led to him killing someone. That's Murder.
Graylight · 51-55, F
People choose to consume sugar, yet diabetes is a disease. People choose to more; by cancer is a disease.
Not everyone has the same tolerance or intolerance to a substance. For the millions of people who drink wine, we don't call them heroes for not becoming addicted, so why do we stigmatized the minority who find they can't tolerate it?
Call addiction what you want, but when you attach a moral judgment to a medical condition, it's a mistake.
Not everyone has the same tolerance or intolerance to a substance. For the millions of people who drink wine, we don't call them heroes for not becoming addicted, so why do we stigmatized the minority who find they can't tolerate it?
Call addiction what you want, but when you attach a moral judgment to a medical condition, it's a mistake.
ButterFly2023 · 18-21, M
It's desperation.
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ButterFly2023 · 18-21, M
Must be good at it, self rightouesness always helps.
Picklebobble2 · 56-60, M
sounds like a term of denial.
Graylight · 51-55, F
@Picklebobble2 Actually, it's a medical designation.