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The article isn't about classifying addiction as disease or "choice." The debate is between disease and "not disease."
by freyr 10y ago
The article isn't about classifying addiction as disease or "choice." The debate is between disease and "not disease."
- pg_is_a_butt 10y agocan we still get "abortions"?
- vasilipupkin 10y agoseems like a debate about semantics. Why can't the answer be a multi-variate model in which disease like factors get a weight and non-disease like factors get some kind of a weight? What's the point arguing about these non continuous binary options?
- funkdobiest 10y agoThat's the way I have always heard it framed,as what is your definition of disease?
- posterboy 10y ago> semantics here we go dis-ease: not being easy, uncomfortable, sickness > (pathology) An abnormal condition of a human, animal or plant that causes discomfort or dysfunction; distinct from injury insofar as the latter is usually instantaneously acquired. There is no debate to be had at all. I get where this comes from, the scientific definition is more involved, but then addiction is just a symptom, while the damage, eg. to the nervous system, is material. Would ignorance count as disease?
- ktRolster 10y ago>seems like a debate about semantics. The article specifically addresses that point: a slim majority of the panelists, including Murphy, did not want to emphasize the word "disease," because it implies that chemical dependence is primarily a function of pathology, when in fact environmental factors (dysfunction at home, stress at work), learned behavioral patterns (binge drinking, for instance), and economic disparities have been shown to play a significant causal role. Clearly, the debate was not just semantic.
- posterboy 10y agoenvironmental factors (e.g. bad air), learned behavioral patterns (hygiene) and economic disparities (to afford a doctor) all play a role in the course of a lung infection, even leading to death, too. I don't think it isn't a prime example of a disease.
- vasilipupkin 10y agounderstood. But what matters to me when I am in the hospital with a lung infection is how to treat it so that it goes away, not what it's called
- gallonofmilk 10y agoin my experience it is more of a "dis-ease"