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Addiction is Not a Disease
For several decades now alcohol and drug addiction has been viewed and treated as a brain disease by the medical and psychiatric communities. Concurrent with this approach has also come a very definite lack of results in their treatments for addiction. Even with the hundreds of millions of dollars spent on researching this major public health epidemic, there is no conclusive evidence so support the disease concept to date. Many research projects have found probabilities and indications, yet it is still quite a mystery. Alcohol and other drug addiction does have both behavioral and biophysical components and both do need to be addressed to solve the problem, though substituting natural brain chemicals with more drugs is not a solution. In fact, it can be and often is much more damaging to a person when trying to achieve stable, long-term results. Claiming that a person is sober while being on mind-altering drugs is also a direct contradiction by definition. When searching for solutions we must ask ourselves if we as individuals and as a nation are able to look beyond bias and tradition to find and use what actually works. Results speak for themselves. They are true to the degree they are demonstrable and observable, not hypothesized. Though there are many factors leading and contributing to an individual’s addiction, it does not have to be made so complex that nobody can understand it. There are simple solutions available.
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This intel was contributed by Catton
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May, 2012
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