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Winning Position: Should addiction be considered a disease?
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Should addiction be considered a disease?
The debate between addiction being classified as a disease is far from over. The "addiction is a brain disease" argrument is not an old one, but is now recieving more attention and support because of our ability to condut brain scans of addicts and nonaddicts. Their argrument says that because of the neural pathways created by drug usage, after a certain period of voluntary intake, it becomes an uncontrollable disease and these individuals shouldnt be held accountable for their behavior. Their free will is absent(if you are a believer in free will to begin with).