2006-10-21 17:48:18 · 10 answers · asked by alfie87 1 in Society & Culture ➔ Community Service
Yes. It is a disease. Mental illnesses are diseases just as physical illnesses are diseases and mental illnesses are based in physical illness. There is not only a fine line between them but sometimes no line between physical and mental illnesses.
BUT as with any illness, there is treatment, prevention, cures or remedies to bring the disease into remission and if you don't use them, the disease may kill you eventually or make your life miserable until you die.
2006-10-21 17:57:52 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Addiction to alcohol or other drugs is considered to be a disease by the AMA.
Chemical addiction fills all of the recognized requirements for disease: signs, symptoms, cause, diagnosis, progression, treatment, outcome.
2006-10-21 18:09:25 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
No. Drug addiction is voluntary, so it is not a disease.
An addictive personality is a mental disorder, sometimes accompanied by obsessive compulsive behavior. This can be treated thorugh talk therapy, biofeedback and related techniques.
But addiction is definitely a choice, and rehab followed by occupational therapy is the best route.
2006-10-21 18:55:08 · answer #3 · answered by nora22000 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
i am sorry for not just giving u the info, but this will help u more, Click on this link. It will explain how drug addiction can be considered a brain disease. http://serendip.brynmawr.edu/bb/neuro/neuro02/web1/npietras.html
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2006-10-21 18:01:45 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
yes it is and there is food addiction sex addiction all require special treatment we are born with addiction wether it be smokeing drinking or mabie even all of the above we are addicts forever and it runs in family bloodlines and requires drastic treatment its hard to get treatment for someone that is in denial but dont give up intervein and do best you can to help a loved one that is addicted and seek alanons that mean support for familys of the addict its a sad and scarry situwation but many i for one concer it but always live with the addiction in us but there is hope and help
2006-10-21 17:59:22 · answer #5 · answered by polkahaunis 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
ailments could be aquired by way of somewhat some ability. illness is oftentimes a term it somewhat is used for an illness that can impression somebody mentally, bodily, and socially. they could be surpassed down by way of genetics (habit, skitzofrenia), aquired over the years (habit,maximum cancers), and aquired virally it somewhat is talked approximately as an infectious illness (flu, STD's). human beings oftentimes confuse the term with an epidemic, which has to he surpassed from somebody already contaminated, despite if it somewhat is a plenty wider term. habit can impression somebody mentally and bodily it somewhat is why this is seen a illness.
2016-12-08 18:53:10 · answer #6 · answered by chaplean 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No,I'd think its a results of habit forming or habitualy inclination to it, it would requires a specialy built space,i.e hospital, asylum, or thing like that, to get the 'patient' to recovers.
2006-10-21 19:06:34 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
well....if you want to get really technical it is a mental disorder, and those are often classified as diseases, and as far as I know it is treated just like a disease.
2006-10-21 17:56:33 · answer #8 · answered by Davy D 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
No. I used to do drugs, purely and simply, because I liked it.
2006-10-21 18:50:33 · answer #9 · answered by paganvegan 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
For medical purposes, yes. For welfare purposes, no.
2006-10-21 17:55:33 · answer #10 · answered by Kacky 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋