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Why Is Addiction Considered to Be a Disease?

Question by mizzhollywood26: Why is addiction considered to be a disease?

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Answer by Troubled Teenager
cuz it gets in the way of ur life and it can ruin it therefore u need help and is treated like a disease that can be treated with the right help.

Answer by Gary C
We call it a “disease” so that it’s not the addict’s fault and so that we, as a society, are responsible for fixing it, not the addict.

In our society today, it is popular to make excuses for every failing of every person and to say that it is not their fault. As a result, no one is responsible for the choices they make, “we” are, so “we” must fix it.

“To say it country simple, most folks enjoy junk”: William S Burroughs on
I think on a deep biological level most addicts want to be cured. Junk is death and your body knows it. I relapsed because I was never physiologically cured until I took the apomorphine treatment. Apomorphine is the only agent I know that evicts the …
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Methadone is typically used to treat a heroin addiction under supervision. K was a Grade 8 student at … Sandra Potts, speaking on behalf of K's biological parents, said that because the parents are labelled as addicts, they are not included in the …
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Shepard, a legal studies major, said while living with her biological mother; she was exposed to a harsh world of drugs, alcohol, abuse and poverty. While her mom struggled with addiction and worked as a prostitute, Shepard said her siblings were often …
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