Can anyone direct me to a credible source where I can find unbiased answers to this and other questions regarding substance abuse? I seek the Truth!
2006-09-15 12:24:55 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous in Social Science ➔ Psychology
ADDICTION IS A DISEASE!!! check the AA and NA website.....also break down the word disease.....Dis- Ease....
also www.dictionary.com defines disease as the following:
1. a disordered or incorrectly functioning organ, part, structure, or system of the body resulting from the effect of genetic or developmental errors, infection, poisons, nutritional deficiency or imbalance, toxicity, or unfavorable environmental factors; illness; sickness; ailment.
2. any abnormal condition in a plant that interferes with its vital physiological processes, caused by pathogenic microorganisms, parasites, unfavorable environmental, genetic, or nutritional factors, etc.
3. any harmful, depraved, or morbid condition, as of the mind or society: His fascination with executions is a disease.
4. decomposition of a material under special circumstances: tin disease.
–verb (used with object) 5. to affect with disease; make ill.
Origin: 1300–50; ME disese < AF dese(a)se, disaise; see dis-1, ease
It sounds to me that you don't want to accept the FACT that addiction is a disease. Before you seek information discrediting that addiction is a disease....read the information at the below websites.
2006-09-18 13:02:14 · answer #1 · answered by MS BOSSY 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I can give you the truth straight up I've been around addicts and I have used hard drugs such as crack. I 've been around Alcoholics, family members. It is all in the mind. It is a decesion. Not a desease. I don't use anything now, I choose not to. But I know people who are consumed, they don't want to quit. It is a mind set but the enviroment you are in is essential. I am able to get away from these people and that life style, And I don't have to struggle.When you have problems and live in an enviroment like that it is harder. I have a strong mind, but some people are weak minded. And they let themselves becomes victims to chronic abuse.
2006-09-15 12:32:21 · answer #2 · answered by dancinintherain 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I don't have any sources to direct you toward, but I think a good rebuttal to this argument is to bring up nicotine and smoking. Nicotine is addictive. So if people claim crack is addictive and is a disease, why is nicotine addiction not a disease? We don't treat smokers as though they have a disease. We treat them as though they are outcasts.
I simply think the disease concept is a way to displace the accountability to make the choice. The 12-step programs such as AA and NA are based on the fact that the addict/alcoholic is powerless. It all goes back to having and internal locus of control versus and external locus of control. People with internal loci make things happen; people with external loci have things happen to them.
2006-09-15 14:30:45 · answer #3 · answered by michael.avery 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The propensity for the difficulty is inherited, a minimum of in alcoholism. That makes it if not a ailment a danger to wellbeing. I easily have considered it first hand in my relations. My dad develop right into a recuperating alcoholic. He were given recommend even as he drank. One brother has this reaction as well as does his son. For something human beings it isn't a difficulty. without remedy and or intervention this difficulty motives a great deal of discomfort and suffering for all in touch. playstation How might want to each person Tdown Sally? You rock woman!
2016-11-27 01:09:23 · answer #4 · answered by kirker 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's definitely not a disease but a choice. All your actions are choices including picking up and using. You can become addicted to it but thats something you can overcome. Now if a doctor told you, you had cancer and a month to live there would be nothing you could do about it. I belive that they tell people it's a disease so they'll take proactive steps to prevent themselves from using and take it seriously.
2006-09-15 13:27:24 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
That AA does not work and Bill Wilson that came up with this is a liar! Go look up the founder of AA and hisname is Bill wilson. I think if you wanna stop anything then you don't need help. You need Will Power to just Stop! Sometimes when your addicted though it is hard to stop anything so it is best to have help with dealing with anything. More people win a battle then just one person alone. Anyway, I hope this helps you out some. Thanks and God Bless you hon!
2006-09-15 14:57:13 · answer #6 · answered by SecretUser 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The Bible calls it drunkenness and sin.
2006-09-15 12:28:39 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋