Wiers points out that the view of addiction as a chronic brain disease, in which relapse is the norm, is heavily based on studies of patients who, for the most part, did relapse after treatment.

The brain disease model of addiction holds that SUDs are chronic, relapsing brain diseases and that relapses are symptoms, and part of the expected course, of the disease (Morse, 2017).

Researchers argue that "we may need to reevaluate the causal assumptions that underlie brain disease models of addiction." ...

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 ...

Addiction is not simply a chronic brain disease and considering it as such can limit treatment options and increase stigma, an extensive research review suggests. After decades of research ...

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In standard brain disease models of addiction, the neurotoxic effects of abused psychoactive substances are thought to cause brain changes that spur compulsive cravings for drink, smokes, or dope.

To the public, policymakers and even health care workers, he wrote, “Addiction as a chronic, relapsing disease of the brain is a totally new concept.” But he did not overlook contributing factors.

If referring to individuals as 'zombies' is not a dehumanizing way to describe someone suffering the brain disease of addiction, then please put me in my place. Geri-Lynn Utter.