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Treating addiction as a disease in it's own right seems like a good place to start. If the drug seeking, dishonesty, etc, are symptoms of an underlying disease,
by coleifer 8y ago
Treating addiction as a disease in it's own right seems like a good place to start. If the drug seeking, dishonesty, etc, are symptoms of an underlying disease, wouldn't it be best to treat the cause rather than fiddling with the symptoms? What would such a treatment plan look like, I wonder?
- simonsarris 8y agoIf addiction = a disease then doctors not prescribing opiods at every turn = doctors learning to wash their hands.
- XalvinX 8y agoyeah but addiction isn't a disease. if it is, we all are diseased because everyone is addicted to something. it is just a fundamental human tendency to grasp at things to define themselves. "oh, me? well i'm a tough cigarette smoking Marlboro Man cowboy type..." "well, i'm a macho tequila pounding party guy." "and i'm a Syd Vicious-type of punkish junkie." "and I'm a sneaky Catholic priest who is in the fucking young boy club that has existed for nearly 2000 years..." "oh, but I'm the risk taking race car driver guy that drives Ferraris at 220MPH and cheats death daily.." "and I'm the Rubenesque girl who can eat chocolate cake all day and just get prettier because some people out there like 350 pound women..." all just clinging to self-images....