2007-01-08 07:02:28 · 7 answers · asked by James H 1 in Health ➔ Mental Health
It depends. Heroine will change the make up of your mind to create the addiction, this is definitely disease. Nicotine is mentally and physically craved but it doesn't really change much so I put it in a grey area. Then there is sex addiction which i think i most def a cop out.
2007-01-08 07:07:27 · answer #1 · answered by n_m_young 4 · 1⤊ 1⤋
It's a disease. My dad was an alcoholic, I don't suffer from that so I have a stop sign. Witnessing first hand what it's like to live with an addict, I admit it's a disease.
Cigarrettes have added chemicals in them to make them more addictive. Natural tobacco is not nearly as addictive.
Alcohol medicates people who suffer from anxiety, sometimes. So, they keep reaching for the drink to feel like they can function.
Narcotics make the body dependent on them. It causes the hormonal structure to change so that the mind cannot concentrate without them.
If an addict really wants to stop, they will find the help it takes to make them stop.
2007-01-08 07:07:49 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Addiction itself is not a cop out. The disease model of addiction most certainly is. People may become habituated to any activity/substance/object to the detriment of healthful living. Social, family and personal relationships may become impaired, personal values and health may be neglected by or sublimated to the object of habituation. Addiction/habituation begins and ends with a single choice. That is fundemental to understanding addiction - by whatever name is be called.
2007-01-09 04:31:29 · answer #3 · answered by voodooprankster 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If you want it to be a disease and be "ill" your whole life then, yes, addiction is a disease. But you can also be healed and cured from your "disease" of addiction. The cure for addiction is this: Just don't do it.
2007-01-09 20:58:23 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Sorry to tell you this it's hereditary. Yep, I bet someone in your family had some kind of form of addiction. Both my parents where alcoholics, and when I was about 21 I started drinking, isn't that sick , when I would come home and see my parents passed out on the couch drunk. But I kept drinking and I couldn't stop, Very scary, cause my whole life I watched both my parents drink themselves to death. I remember thinking my parents love alcohol more then they love me. I had a child, I never drank again, but it's in their genes and I will tell them when they are old enough to understand.
2007-01-08 15:12:45 · answer #5 · answered by crazybeotch88 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It is a physiological disease involving the neurotransmitters in the brain being replaced by the drug. When the drug is missing, the brain freaks out.
It is a PHYSICAL DISEASE. Depending on what you are hooked on, you need to see a Dr. probably to wean you off it
2007-01-08 07:22:17 · answer #6 · answered by dragon3652001 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
well its jst a state of mind
2007-01-08 07:05:50 · answer #7 · answered by psycadelic 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋