Addiction Is a Brain Disease. / Alan I. Leshner.
by Leshner, Alan I; SIRS Publishing, Inc.
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BookSeries: SIRS Enduring Issues 2002Article 64Health. Publisher: Issues in Science and Technology, 2001ISSN: 1522-323X;.Subject(s): Addicts | Brain -- Diseases | Compulsive behavior | Drug abuse | Drug abuse -- TreatmentDDC classification: 050 Summary: "People see addiction as either a disease or as a failure of will....The truth is we will only make progress in dealing with drug issues only when our national discourse and our strategies are as complex and comprehensive as the problem itself." (ISSUES IN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY) This author, director of the National Institute on Drug Abuse, argues the controversial opinion that addiction is a biochemical illness.
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Articles Contained in SIRS Enduring Issues 2002.
Originally Published: Addiction Is a Brain Disease, Spring 2001; pp. 75-80.
"People see addiction as either a disease or as a failure of will....The truth is we will only make progress in dealing with drug issues only when our national discourse and our strategies are as complex and comprehensive as the problem itself." (ISSUES IN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY) This author, director of the National Institute on Drug Abuse, argues the controversial opinion that addiction is a biochemical illness.
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