Drug Addiction: Is Addiction Simply a Brain Disease? It Is Now – PsychCentral.com (Blog)

Drug Addiction: Is Addiction Simply a Brain Disease? It Is Now – PsychCentral.com (blog)


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Is Addiction Simply a Brain Disease? It Is Now
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Among addiction experts and researchers, there's been a long-running debate as to whether drug or alcohol addiction, and even “behavioral addictions” such as compulsive gambling, are actual diseases or not.
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Drug Addiction: Block Jr. admits to prescription drug addiction, determined to stay in office – Santa Fe New Mexican.com


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Block Jr. admits to prescription drug addiction, determined to stay in office
Santa Fe New Mexican.com
Embattled Public Regulation Commissioner Jerome Block Jr. admitted to battling an addiction with prescription drugs Tuesday but refused to step down despite repeated calls from other elected officials. “I've been battling an addiction with a
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Drug Addiction: Megachurch Pastor Found Dead With ‘White Powder’ in Times Square – New York Magazine


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Megachurch Pastor Found Dead With 'White Powder' in Times Square
New York Magazine
Tims founded the 7000-member New Destiny Christian Center in Apopka, Florida, and previously struggled with drug addiction in his native Baltimore, where he was gang-affiliated before a religious conversion just before his twentieth birthday.
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Drug Addiction: Treatment for addiction is bringing drug use down, not pushing it up – The Guardian

Treatment for addiction is bringing drug use down, not pushing it up
The Guardian
While correct that 206000 people in England received an intervention for drug addiction at the last count, it was wrong that "around 62600 completed some form of treatment". Not all who left the system in 2009-10 completed a course of treatment – many

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