Damian Thompson: 'Addiction Is a Messy and Frightening Reality'

Damian Thompson: 'Addiction is a messy and frightening reality'
The motion 'Addiction is not a Disease' received overwhelming support from a lively crowd at last night's Spectator debate. … Theodore Dalrymple opened the debate for the motion by asserting that Mao Tse Tung was the greatest therapist of drug …
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What Paul Flowers and Nigella Lawson can tell us about addiction
The proposition was: Addiction is not a disease. The alternative was left unsaid in the title, but I heard only "moral failing" bouncing in the void. We heard the testimony of experts, who said they did not know when drug use ceased to be voluntary …
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Treatment can help addicts regain lives
We also want to educate the public that addiction is a real medical disease, not just a problem of weak individuals who have no willpower. Individuals with addictions undoubtedly are ripe fruit for unscrupulous providers to charge large amounts of cash …
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Drug addiction is not a disease – Addiction is not a disease, is something you bring upon yourself… You don’t develop a needle in your arm, you put it there.