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Logically, the disease model of addiction shouldn’t threaten anyone’s belief in their own ability to recover, any more than a diagnosis of diabetes or hypertension suggests you can’t successfully recover from those illnesses.
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Disease Arguments: The Sequel, Remake, etc.
Alcoholism has been around for nine or ten thousand years, but most of what science understands of brain function is less than eighty years old.
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Fear of the Disease Model
Many clinicians don’t view addiction as a disease, which they believe relieves them of the need to learn much about its pathophysiology.
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What KIND of Disease is Addiction?
Most communities provide both options for opioid patients, and lacking a methadone for alcohol or cocaine, use a more traditional abstinence-based approach for those addictions.
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Evolution of a Disease Concept
A model generally supersedes other models not because it is perfect in every respect, but because it seems to explain certain aspects better than its predecessors.
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A (Very New) Beginner’s Guide to the Disease Concept
We’re brought up to view a pattern of problems with alcohol or drugs as the result of a variety of other factors— psychological issues, or lack of willpower, or moral weakness, or some terrible past experience. That makes it difficult for most of us to switch over to the view of addiction as a chronic illness.
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The Disease Debate
“We’re still stuck at the problem of definition. Until we agree on that, I don’t know how we can resolve it.” And not surprisingly, we didn’t.
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Why Do Alcoholics Drink?
If you’re happy with your program of recovery, find another therapist who believes in letting the client direct the course of therapy.
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