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Is Addiction a Disease?
The Disease Model of addiction, fact or fiction? There are many who now classify addiction as a disease. In fact, 12 step programs are based on the idea that addiction not only is a disease, but is one from which one can never recover completely. However, since people can and do recover completely from addictions everyday, after completion of workable rehab programs, the idea that one can never recover belongs in the same scrap heap as the idea that the World is Flat. In fact, the idea that one can never fully recover from an addiction, is a very destructive lie, which keeps many from even attempting to recover completely. But that still leaves the question of whether or not addiction fits the definition of a disease, which is "a pathological condition of a part, an organ, or a system of an organism resulting from various causes, such as infection, genetic defect, or environmental stress, and characterized by an identifiable group of signs or symptoms? The closest that anyone has yet come to being able to show that addiction is a disease, is the chemical imbalance theory, which is just that...a theory. Unfortunately, it's a theory based on no evidence, as there is no actual test ever devised that would show what the "correct" chemical balance of a healthy brain would be. The only way to make such a test would be to cut up the brain. But then it wouldn't be healthy, would it? And using drugs to "correct" the assumed imbalance can create changes in the brain, but not beneficial changes. The facts are that addiction is not a lifelong disease from which one can never recover. In fact, it is not even a disease at all. It is merely an objectionable behavior; a behavior which can be improved without more drugs and without invasive procedures, by a good rehab program. |
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