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Viewpoints: is addiction a disease?

  • Written by Nicole Lee, Associate Professor at the National Drug Research Institute, Curtin University
imageWe've long heard we can't blame people for their addiction because it's a disease, but is it? from www.shutterstock.com.au

The case against

Nicole Lee, Associate Professor at the National Drug Research Institute, Curtin University

We used to think of “addiction”, or what we now call dependence, as a moral failing. This had the result of...

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