Addiction disease
August 13th, 2008
Addiction disease
Addiction: "Drugs, Brains, and Behavior - The Science of Addiction"
As a result of scientific research, we know that addiction is a disease that affects both brain and behavior. We have identified many of the biological and environmental factors ... (more...)
Close to Home - Science
It includes: animated illustrations of the brain and the mechanism of drugs in the body; real-life stories of people who talk about their struggles with the disease of addiction ... (more...)
HBO: Addiction
Addiction is a chronic relapsing brain disease. Brain imaging shows that addiction severely alters brain areas critical to decision-making, learning and memory, and behavior ... (more...)
The Disease Concept of Alcoholism
The Combined Addiction Disease Chronologies of William White, MA, Ernest Kurtz, PhD, and Caroline Acker, PhD (All Adobe Acrobat .PDF files, 28K-50K) (more...)
Addiction: The Disease Concept
Dependency on alcohol and other drugs was once thought of as a moral problem. The addict was looked upon as a weak-willed individual who did not care about other people or even ... (more...)
Drug Addiction The Family Disease | Families Alcohlism and Addiction ...
Addiction is a disease that affects the whole family. To help your loved one you need help yourself to provide stable support. Mark Houston Recovery can help 866-905-4550 (more...)
Addiction Is a 'Brain Disease'
Initial drug use may be voluntary, but once addiction develops control is disrupted in the circuitry of the brain. (more...)
NIDA - Drug Abuse and Addiction: One of America's Most Challenging ...
Drug addiction shares many features with other chronic illnesses, including a tendency to run in families (heritability), an onset and course that is influenced by environmental ... (more...)
Disease model of addiction - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The disease model of addiction describes an addiction as a lifelong disease involving biologic and environmental sources of origin. [citation needed] The traditional medical model ... (more...)
Is Addiction a Disease?
The idea that addiction is a disease has grown and expanded during the previous century. The idea's true beginning could be said to have started with alcoholics anonymous. (more...)