Assertion: addiction | /r/HasProperty | disease
Facets:
value: really
type: DEGREE
value: unlike dependence
type: OTHER
value: unlike tolerance
type: OTHER
value: unlike substance abuse
type: OTHER
Source sentences:
text: Is Addiction a Disease?
text: Why Addiction Is Considered a Disease
text: So is Addiction a Disease or a Choice?
text: Is Addiction a Disease or a Choice?
text: Is Addiction a Disease?
text: Is Addiction a Disease or a Choice?
text: Why Addiction is a Disease
text: However, as stated above, addiction is a disease, and even with treatment, it often does not entirely go away.
text: The fact that addiction crosses all socio-economic boundaries confirms that addiction is a disease.
text: Addiction is a disease which alters the structure and function of the brain.
text: Addiction is a disease with a range of harmful conditions and behaviors.
text: Addiction is a disease; there’s nothing that can be done about it.
text: Fact: Most experts agree that addiction is a disease that affects the brain, but that doesn’t mean anyone is helpless.
text: Whether you think addiction is a disease or not, everyone can agree that addiction is a serious problem that adversely affects the lives of the people using substances as well as the people in their lives.
text: Some people even believe that addiction is a disease and that once people are addicts they will always be addicts, even though there is no real evidence to support this view.
text: Is addiction a disease or a choice?
text: An addiction is a disease, and it is not a choice.
text: The National Institute of Drug Abuse is clear in their opinion that addiction is a disease.
text: This analysis allows us to return to the question about whether or not addiction is a disease.
text: The surgeon general’s report reaffirms what the scientific establishment has been saying for years: Addiction is a disease, not a moral failing.
text: Unlike substance abuse, addiction is a disease.
text: Belief that addiction is a disease is based on findings that it begins early and advances gradually.
text: If addiction is a disease, it can be compared to other diseases such as diabetes, heart disease, or cancer.
text: Despite the evidence, your own personal experience and worldview can shape what you will believe about addiction being a disease or a choice.
text: Research indicates that treatment and changes in policy are likely to result from whether addiction is a disease or not.
text: AA was the first established group to use the word disease when talking about alcoholism, introducing not only a radical concept of treatment, but adding that addiction was something that could be treated – like a disease.
text: Is addiction a disease?
text: Addiction is a disease, not a moral issue.
text: Addiction is a disease, and it requires disease-specific treatment.
text: Addiction is a disease, as diabetes and cancer are diseases.
text: Then came the idea that addiction is a disease: a medical illness like tuberculosis, diabetes or .
text: Perhaps the biggest reason why addiction is a disease is the fact that chronic substance abuse changes brain functioning and structure.
text: Addiction is a disease that affects both the brain and behavior.
text: Unlike tolerance and dependence, addiction is a disease; but like tolerance and dependence, addiction can result from taking drugs or alcohol repeatedly.
text: Addiction is a disease not a moral failing.
text: Addiction is a disease that affects how the brain works, and the end result is an individual that can’t control how often drugs or alcohol are used.
text: Some think it is a simple matter of making better choices to overcome an alcohol or drug addiction, but the truth is that addiction is a disease that totally affects the brain.
text: The prevailing wisdom today is that addiction is a disease.
text: The idea here is, roughly, that addiction is a disease because drug use changes the brain and, as a result of these changes, drug use becomes compulsive, beyond the voluntary control of the user.
text: This way of viewing addiction has its benefits: if addiction is a disease then addicts are not to blame for their plight, and this ought to help alleviate stigma and to open the way for better treatment and more funding for research on addiction.
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: Addiction is a disease that not only affects the physical body, but also crushes the soul.
text: But addiction is a disease that tells the addict s/he doesn’t have a disease.
text: Even to this day, I have people contacting me asking if addiction really is a disease or a choice.
text: Is addiction a disease?
text: I don’t believe addiction is a disease.
text: Whether addiction is a disease, a brain injury, a mental illness or a choice, no amount of yelling, nagging, pleading, cajoling, rewarding, or controlling, will help.