Addiction Is the Disease Concept of Addiction Real, or Just a Trick? Four reasons we see addiction as a true disease. Posted September 3, 2020. Share. Tweet. Share. Email.

The concept of addiction as a disease of the brain challenges deeply ingrained values about self-determination and personal responsibility that frame drug use as a voluntary, hedonistic act.

The opioid abuse epidemic is a full-fledged item in the 2016 campaign, and with it questions about how to combat the problem and treat people who are addicted.

Framing addiction as a disease seems like a concept perfectly suited to our times, and yet it reaches back to Aristotle. In 1913, during an era of heavy use of opiates, ...

The National Institutes for Drug Addiction describe addiction as “a chronic, relapsing brain disease.”But a number of scholars, myself included, question the usefulness of the concept of ...

A neuroscientist takes on the National Institute on Drug Abuse’s assertion that addiction is a brain disease—a classification he finds not only flawed but dangerous.

But a number of scholars, question the usefulness of the concept of addiction as a brain disease (file image). Here lecturer in psychiatry at Yale University, Sally Satel explores the issue.

Why is addiction referred to as a disease? That just doesn’t make sense. How can we call what looks like, from an outside perspective, an intentional action – drinking, ...

The opioid abuse epidemic is a full-fledged item in the 2016 campaign, and with it questions about how to combat the problem and treat people who are addicted.

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The word “addiction” first appeared late in the sixteenth century and meant having a proclivity toward something. “Alcoholism” was coined in 1849 to mean a person who has a proclivity, or ...