Does Calling Heroin Addiction a Brain Disease Help Avoid Tragedies Like Philip …

Published February 20, 2014

Does Calling Heroin Addiction A Brain Disease Help Avoid Tragedies Like Philip …
But the effectiveness of cognitive behavioral therapy and motivational interviewing hardly depends on viewing addiction as a brain disease rather than a hard-to-break habit. And although “psychopharmacology” sounds more like a medical treatment, here …
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Drug prohibition fuels society's ills
The original rat experiment is offered as proof that drug addiction is a disease. The disease theory of addiction holds that addiction is a brain disease that is incurable and can only be survived by total abstinence. The preferred treatment for the so …
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