Is Addiction Really a "Disease"?
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Originally Published: 01/01/2011
Post Date: 01/01/2011
by Kevin T. McCauley, M.D.
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Is Addiction Really a "Disease"?
Summary/Abstract
For the first time in the history of medicine we have some hard and fast knowledge about what happens in the human brain when it becomes addicted to drugs. There are very good brain chemistry reasons for the things addicts do.