Do You Believe That Drug Addiction and Alcoholism Is a Disease?
Question by Yevette: Do you believe that drug addiction and alcoholism is a disease?
Best answer:
Answer by tinker_bella1525
no. a disease is a virus that rapidly reproduces within bloodcells, and kills them.
Answer by aljea
Yes, a mental disease.
Addiction works like this:
Your brain has dopamine receptors, which are what make a person feel happy. When you are using drugs, the drugs attach to these receptors and make you feel happy. So then your brain wants these drugs to attach to these receptors to make you feel happy once again.
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