Assertion: addiction | /r/HasProperty | normal
Facets:
value: altogether
type: DEGREE
value: "uncannily normal,"
type: DEGREE
Source sentences:
text: In The Biology of Desire: Why Addiction Is Not a Disease, Marc Lewis, a neuroscientist and former drug addict, argues that addiction is "uncannily normal," and he offers what he calls the learning model of addiction, which he contrasts to both the idea that addiction is a simple choice and to the idea that addiction is a disease.
text: Popularized by Alcoholics Anonymous, the disease theory holds that addictions are irreversible, constitutional, and altogether abnormal and that the only appropriate treatment is total avoidance of the alcohol or other substance, lifelong abstinence, and constant vigilance.