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Why Drug Addiction Isn't a Disease? Addiction does not meet the criteria specified for a core disease entity, namely the presence of a primary measurable deviation from physiologic or anatomical norm.2 Addiction is self-acquired and is not transmissible, contagious, autoimmune, hereditary, degenerative or traumatic. Treatment consists of little more than stopping a given behaviour. True diseases worsen if left untreated. A patient with cancer is not cured if locked in a cell, whereas an alcoholic is automatically cured. No access to alcohol means no alcoholism. A person with schizophrenia will not remit if secluded. Sepsis will spread and Parkinson disease will worsen if left untreated. Criminal courts do not hand down verdicts of “not guilty by virtue of mental illness” to drunk drivers who kill pedestrians. At best, addiction is a maladaptive response to an underlying condition, such as depression or a nonspecific inability to cope with the world. Garden Heights Recovery 26 Journal Square Plaza Suite 1202 Jersey City, NJ 07306 855-208-4908 https://www.google.com/maps?cid=5486162026777705138

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