The brain disease model of addiction has dominated public and scientific discourse on addiction (termed substance use disorder [SUD] in the DSM-5) over the past 3 decades. The model framed addiction ...

Explore the evolving understanding of addiction, from the long-standing view of it as a chronic brain disease to new perspectives emphasizing social and environmental factors. Learn about the ongoing ...

For decades, medical science has classified addiction as a chronic brain disease, but the concept has always been something of a hard sell to a skeptical public.

The “loss of control theory,” a cornerstone of the disease concept of addiction, has been consistently shown to be false by scientists ever since Yale researcher E.M. Jellinek coined the term ...

The conceptualisation of drug and alcohol addiction as a disease has been developed over the past 200 years. The origin of the disease concept has been credited to Benjamin Rush. Rush's educators ...

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Is addiction a disease? Most people think, "yes." The idea has become ingrained in the minds of media, courts, treatment facilities, and addicts. It's also a stigma. A debatable concept is that if ...

First, the originators of the concept did not say that addiction is only a brain disease; we acknowledged how important behavioral and social elements are to its development and to recovery.