
06-09-2009, 12:52 PM
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Pure tommyrot! The opening two sentences in Chapter I are bold-faced lies. (“Addiction is defined as a chronic, relapsing brain disease that is characterized by compulsive drug seeking and use, despite harmful consequences. It is considered a brain disease because drugs change the brain—they change its structure and how it works.”)
Addiction is NOT a brain disease! Period! Strokes, Alzheimer’s, tumors...those are brain diseases. How convenient to explain one's making ill-advised choices on some chemical/neurochemical anomaly in the brain that mystically destroys free will and places one at the mercy of an inert, inanimate entity called a drug. Abuse of drugs may indeed "change the brain," and if they do, the treatment of such changes should fall under the purview of neurology, certainly not psychology/psychiatry. If there is no lesion, there is no disease! It's that simple.
Don't be misled by the purveyors of morality, and view with skepticism anything published by NIDA. |