Feb. 14: No Brain Is an Island, and Other Letters to the Editor
Feb. 14: No brain is an island, and other letters to the editor
Margaret Wente has ventured into the hornet's nest of trying to understand addiction as either a medical condition or a moral weakness (Philip Seymour Hoffman Had A Habit, Not A Disease – Feb. 13). The psychiatric community itself is split. Witness the …
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Spreading awareness against drug abuse
Cocaine, opiates, marijuana and alcohol all produce transient euphoric effects partly because they promote the release of Dopamine. Addiction is not a disease that compels one to use drugs. Undoubtedly, addiction to drugs is a result of wilful misconduct.
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Porn 'Addiction' Is Made Up
Unlike our definitions of ischemic heart disease, lymphoma, or AIDS, the DSM diagnoses are based on a consensus about clusters of clinical symptoms, not any objective laboratory measure." Yet even they don't include pornography addiction because it …
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