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cluelessfurball
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 Addictions serious drugs and alcohol considered a disease? Ever notice how a lot of people consider alcoholism and addiction to crack a disease? I think it keeps a lot of people from coming to terms with their addiction, calling it a disease. Can you imagine how empowering it would be for these people addicted to crack and alcohol if society looked down on these people instead of feeling sorry for them? "He can't help that he drinks! He has a disease!" Are some of the things people say.
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MelDy(^-^)
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Re: Addictions serious drugs and alcohol considered a disease? I agree although everyone i know always has looked down on the diseases. but to some extent i think some of them can be considered diseases. like alcoholism can lead to liver failure or even cancer? like smoking can lead to caner. I think that technically anything that does harm to ur body and needs some kind of treatment or medication to fix is a disease.
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Hammm
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Re: Addictions serious drugs and alcohol considered a disease? Drug addiction may not be a disease, but that doesn't mean that drug addicts should be looked DOWN upon. They are suffering and, like any other human being, they need help. You ever try breaking an addiction to crack? It's fucking difficult, almost impossible if you attempt it alone. Coupled with the fact that breaking your addiction does nothing to solve the reason you turned to drugs in the first place; drug addicts are a symptom, not a cause, and they reflect flaws already inherent in society.
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Zared Sabretooth
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Re: Addictions serious drugs and alcohol considered a disease? Everyone has an addiction to some extent, jocks to sports, nerds to computer stuff, otakus to anime etc. The only reason that drugs and alcohol are looked down upon is because most are illegal and with booze it's because alcoholics can seriously fuck other people or themselves up. In my oppinion to have an addiction is to be human.
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Hammm
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Re: Addictions serious drugs and alcohol considered a disease? ^ There's a difference between mental addiction and physical dependency. For example, someone who stops using methadone after a while could experience withdrawal symptoms such as death  I would actually blame part of this on the medicalization phenomenon. I mean, is ADD a disorder or a facet of human personality? There's a growing trend in the medical world to describe things like male baldness as diseases...
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n0th1n
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Re: Addictions serious drugs and alcohol considered a disease? Generally, addiction to crack, at least around here, is looked at as an addiction to crack, not a disease, but whatever.
I don't know about where you are, but people definitely look down on those alcoholics and crack addicts around here and inn alot of places, at least in some way. Also, sympathy and feeling sorry for them doesn't change that they are looked down upon for those reasons.
However, I don't think it changes the situation too much if you 'look down upon them'. As I said, alot of places that is already the case, and its a culturally something to avoid, yet it still goes on. Likewise, its even more than simply 'looked down upon' to steal or murder, yet people still do those things a considerable bit.
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Zared Sabretooth
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Re: Addictions serious drugs and alcohol considered a disease? Well I don't look down on anyone with an addiction so long as they can still function. Perfect example is my uncle, he's an extreme alcoholic, drunk from the time he wakes up till he passes out but he can still hold a job and stay out of trouble... More or less.
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Re: Addictions serious drugs and alcohol considered a disease? ever notice that both can be cured?
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ReinaHarden
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Re: Addictions serious drugs and alcohol considered a disease? They are more psychological than anything. But in some cases like methadone, Tylenol, and other such drugs alter body chemistry in such a way that there can be serious withdrawals if one stops straight up.
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