Drug dependence is not addiction—and it matters
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Drug dependence is not addiction—and it matters
One thing I'd argue as a starting point is there is no "theory" or a "model" of addiction as a disease. The arguments associated with that claim are actually not that cohesive. A common position associated with addiction as a disease is that it is an essential category, which is an idea we can get our arms around a bit better and which I discuss ab... See more
Toward a Unified Field Theory of Human Flourishing
I once worked as a writer for a big New York ad agency. Our boss used to tell us: Invent a disease. Come up with the disease, he said, and we can sell the cure. Attention Deficit Disorder, Seasonal Affect Disorder, Social Anxiety Disorder. These aren't diseases, they're marketing ploys. Doctors didn't discover them, copywriters did. Marketing depar
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term is really a misnomer when discussing major or clinical depression (depressive illness), which is a physical illness, not a mental illness, involving a real chemical disturbance in the brain and hormonal changes in the body.
Tim Cantopher • Beating Insomnia
The p in DOPAMINE stands for problems related to use