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Do You Believe Addiction is a Disease, Or... [POLL!]

Addiction is...

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its a CHOICE PEOPLE.... A CHOICE

EDIT: unless your mom did drugs while she was pregnant with you... then its not your fault
 
Addiction is a disease. 12 step programs work for a reason. People in the precontemplation phase of their addiction, or people in active addiction, just aren't going to want to see the sense in a 12 step program or see addiction as a disease which can be arrested. When I was using I would reason everything away so expertly that I convinced myself and others that my use wasn't a problem, and of course when we are using we do not want to see our behavior as being wrong and we all become experts at making our behavior seem perfectly justifiable and safe. We don't want to believe that we have a problem. Who does?

The 12 step programs work because they treat addiction as a disease, and in psychology we are taught that addiction is a disease and that is how it can be successfully treated. You are welcome to believe otherwise, or that the sun rises in the West, but those 12 step programs are there for you if you should ever need them. Without NA I would not have been able to move on and no longer need drugs to be happy in my life.
 
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Absolutely, Ive been through two intensive inpatients and still manage to ruim my life with this stuff. Its Chronic and fatal(or you end up in jail) look up disease and it fits to a T
 
lokai said:
Addiction is a disease. 12 step programs work for a reason. People in the precontemplation phase of their addiction, or people in active addiction, just aren't going to want to see the sense in a 12 step program or see addiction as a disease which can be arrested. When I was using I would reason everything away so expertly that I convinced myself and others that my use wasn't a problem, and of course when we are using we do not want to see our behavior as being wrong and we all become experts at making our behavior seem perfectly justifiable and safe. We don't want to believe that we have a problem. Who does?

The 12 step programs work because they treat addiction as a disease, and in psychology we are taught that addiction is a disease and that is how it can be successfully treated. You are welcome to believe otherwise, or that the sun rises in the West, but those 12 step programs are there for you if you should ever need them. Without NA I would not have been able to move on and no longer need drugs to be happy in my life.
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Well put
 
Feste said:
5% success rate.

I wouldn't say they work all that well.
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Where did that 5% figure come from? The program works when you work it. Unless you care about your recovery and you work the program it'll do you no good. It's worked for me and it's worked for my friends I've met in NA, all 10 of us, and there are even more at the groups who are clean and accomplishing things in life again.
 
It's a chronic illness that has no cure

YOUR NOV. 9 story on the death of Dr. Brent Cambron ("Something, anything to stop the pain") glossed over the complexities and realities of drug addiction, choosing instead to give readers a sensationalized story of a doctor gone bad on drugs.

Addiction is not a disease that can be cured; rather, it is a chronic illness that has no cure. The patient needs constant follow-up care with his or her treatment physician.

The article seems to place the blame solely on Cambron, while failing to mention that he was not participating in a meaningful system involving constant care and lifelong monitoring.

A recent study on alcoholism by the Max Planck Institute for Experimental Medicine in Germany found that only 6 to 20 percent of patients are abstinent after two years of study. It concluded that alcoholism (and by extension, drug addiction) "is a chronic and relapsing disease similar to other chronic conditions such as hypertension or diabetes."

Hopefully, Cambron's tragic story can serve as a reminder that recognizing and properly treating the long-term, addictive power of drugs is far more important than any perceived flaws or weaknesses of the user.

Dr. Punyamurtula Kishore
President and founder
The National Library of Addictions
Brookline
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From Here
 
I put it down as a disease...at least once you are addicted. There are many variables that lead people to drugs. I naively got addicted to opiates after being introduced to OxyContin. From the first pill, I wanted more. I felt very euphoric, no anxiety, depression and was much more outgoing (combating mental illness). I really thought that addiction to drugs was simply a psychological thing. Once I started to get sick or very unmotivated without opiates, It was too late. Call it bad choices (it was) but after you are addicted, your brain has changed completely.
 
lokai said:
Addiction is a disease. 12 step programs work for a reason. People in the precontemplation phase of their addiction, or people in active addiction, just aren't going to want to see the sense in a 12 step program or see addiction as a disease which can be arrested. When I was using I would reason everything away so expertly that I convinced myself and others that my use wasn't a problem, and of course when we are using we do not want to see our behavior as being wrong and we all become experts at making our behavior seem perfectly justifiable and safe. We don't want to believe that we have a problem. Who does?

The 12 step programs work because they treat addiction as a disease, and in psychology we are taught that addiction is a disease and that is how it can be successfully treated. You are welcome to believe otherwise, or that the sun rises in the West, but those 12 step programs are there for you if you should ever need them. Without NA I would not have been able to move on and no longer need drugs to be happy in my life.
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As Feste said, it has a sub 5% success rate, on par with simply quitting on your own. Addiction is a disease, but AA/NA sure the fuck isn't the medicine.
 
I don't think it starts out as a disease, but after awhile it seems to take on the characteristics of a disease. At 1st it is a choice then you feel you have no choice...funny thing is the only way you beat it is with a choice.

Also addiction is a symptom of a disease...not the disease. JMO
 
It is a disease but ih ave noticed those most susceptible to addiction already have pre-existing mental conditions.
 
I don't think addiction is a disease. I think addicitions can go beyond the "addictees" control, but it still remains a choice that one makes to consume what they are addicted to. They can, after all, choose to deal with the withdrawal, and you can choose to overcome it.
 
WHAT? As a LONG TERM HEROIN ADDICT I DO NOT suffer from a Disease IT IS A Addiction I didn't catch it! IT IS self inflicted(Through ignorance-maybe) But I didn't 'catch it nor was I Infected'
I Hope this is of some use too some one! But don't try to evade your own responsability(Sorry about my poor English as I'm uneducated but Honest) for your own actions..
HOPE THIS MAKES SENSE ?.. D... P.S Ignorance is NOT Bliss...
 
I'd say NO it's NOT a disease But it can be psychological or it can be physical dependent on amount/length of use among other things...BUT if you ARE addicted well IT WILL usually end up being a Problem! Obvious But TRUE.. D.. . Seasonal Greetings..Happy Yuel & all the Best too you all for the christen New Year... For ALL Others Happy 1429/30? 5768/9 Hope this is correct or @ least close enough not to offend(NOT INTENDED).. Love&Peace. D.. .
 
toastedpanda said:
To use or not to use is a choice.
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True, but it's still a disease.

I could have diabetes and still choose whether or not to take my insulin, or follow a proper diet. Having the disease doesn't dictate my actions, it only works to define the consequences of any actions I choose to take.
 
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