Do you believe in the disease model of addiction? If so, how does this make you feel?
September 26, 2009 by Addiction and Substance Abuse Tips
Filed under Addiction Detox & Rehab
Can you answer voodooprankster’s question about Addiction?:
“Defining drug abuse ass a disease ensures humane treatment and removes the moral implidcation and the guilt that surrounds it.” - Disability Handbook, Department of Rehabilitation Education & Research, University of Arkansas, Two Thousand Four Edition, Ed. Jason D. Andrew.
“Defining drug abuse ass a disease ensures humane treatment and removes the moral implidcation and the guilt that surrounds it.” - Disability Handbook, Department of Rehabilitation Education & Research, University of Arkansas, Two Thousand Four Edition, Ed. Jason D. Andrew.
Defining, instead of proving? Where is the choice supposed to be in the equation of addiction? Isn’t the disease a cop out?
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Addiction Feedback: Yeah, in some ways…it seems to be a disease but a self-enduced disease. Once hooked, there is sometimes little that can be done. It makes it hard to feel sorry or want to help too much someone who brought something on them self. I would like to see a model that allowed for responsibilty and gave way for help.