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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.
