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Addiction is not a Diseases

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Is addiction a Disease or is it a Choice? To think clearly about this question, we need to make a sharp distinction between them so what is a disease? A disease is a pathological condition of a part, organ, or 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. A condition or tendency, as of society, regarded as abnormal and harmful. Obsolete Lack of ease a disordered or abnormal condition of an organ or other part of an organism resulting from the effect of genetic or developmental errors, infection, nutritional deficiency, toxicity, or unfavorable environmental factors illness sickness.


In other world a disease it's something undesirable or unfortunate happening that occurs unintentionally without a deliberate plan or cause, often with lack of intention or necessity and uncontrolled event for example you have a plan to go with your friends or family to Disney Land, but in the next day you caught a cold without by part of your vacation plants. So, yeah a addiction it's not a disease because you can't pretend you just caught a addiction when you decide to continue drinking, smoking texting etc with your own choice.


Anyone who abuses substances or in anything whether it be alcohol, crack, heroin, or any stuff that people normally are addictive, has a choice, not a disease. Problem such as cancer are legitimate diseases as they are both beyond the individual's control at the onset and they can't by control or predict. So, why many professionals define addiction as a disease? To put it simple is MONEY simple as that sound. They made the excuse that addiction is a disease just to get your money. They know that they will make money for their services, they know that people are stupid and naive to believe them because they are desperate too seek help of someone, and the poor excuse that addiction it's a disease is for people to get away with it.


Also there doesn't seem to be any evidence that substance abuse is involuntary. In fact evidence used to demonstrate that addiction is caused by brain-diseases is nothing but editing picture after all with the advance technology anyone could editing the braid picture, and it could also be on how a normal part of how the brain works when the person is thinking on something or she/he have a emotional moment such as anger or saddest, and the brain changes occur as a matter of everyday life the brain can be changed by the choice to think or behave differently, and the type of changes we're talking about are not permanent and they are complete harmless to the brain.


Other reasons why Addiction is not a Disease is because the person get cure then return to their addictive life on a very short time, and since I know that a disease do not return in a short time which mean the person was pretending to be the victim. There are no cure for addiction, but the only cure I could think about is beat the shit of these people or leave them to die and I know it's bad and cruel but that it's reality that we all living and you people have to deal with it.

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BitterSweetiez's avatar
I disagree, and so does the medical world. I don't have any addictions personally but I do have family members who deal with alcoholism and some who have done harder drugs.

Mental diesease is still a disease. And what happens with addiction especially in people who have addictive personalities (people who are more easily addicted to substances and behaviors than others) is whatever substance they've taken on be it cigarretts, alcohol, drugs, gambling etc. Is it alters the way the brain functions and once the brain is altered by these things (by processes of a chemical reward system, getting a high releases dopamine which is the brain's "happy" chemical) it makes the person dependant on that substance or activity to release those chemicals and doing so without it becomes increasingly harder and no person can just live without dopamine processes, it'd drive them to suicide. Anyway. This is why addiction is a struggle and why it most often impossible to beat alone. The only choice someone battling addiction has is if they are willing to get help breaking their addiction.
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