Addiction as a Disease?
Question by Sara22: Addiction as a disease?
Ok, so I understand how the use of drugs can create neurological pathways that stay there and that cause cravings and such, which is addiction. But…even considering that addiction is a disease of the brain, it’s also produced by one’s own free will, and the choice to use IS controlled by the cortex, not by the midbrain. People get impulses all of the time, and I am just not understanding how the inability to control one’s impulses can be called a disease, rather than a choice. Drug users have 12-step programs. They rewire the brain, give you different perceptions, but they don’t fix your problem, and you’re right back to using your own free will to fix the disease. Help me understand.
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Answer by COCHINO
ITS ALL PSYCHOLOGICAL I TWEEKED N DID ACID FOR BOUT 2 YEARS STRAIGHT ODED ONCE N JUSS STRAIGHT QUIT AN ADDICTIONS ALL N UR HEAD U CAN BREAK IT ANY TIME WITH OUT ANY OF THAT BULLSH!T FIND SUMTHIN ELSE TO DO MAN
Answer by Elephant
No, It’s a disease. People just distort the definition of a disease. A disease is something that over time, destroys your body, which is what addiction is.
Also, it’s not enitrely free-will. It’s not easy to break an addiction, it’s an addiction for a reason, it becomes a body’s physical need. People usually can’t control themselves.
Also, by your logic, curable diseases aren’t diseases, either, because they can be cured overtime. Just like an addiction.
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