Do you believe in the disease model of addiction? If so, how does this make you feel?

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, 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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