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Should Addiction to Drugs be Labeled a Brain Disease?
Click on each link below to read the opposing views
Alan I. Leshner, director of the National Institute on Drug Abuse at the National Institutes of Health. Believes that addiction to drugs and alcohol is not a behavioral condition but a treatable disease
Psychiatrist Sally L. Sate counters that labeling addiction a chronic and relapsing brain disease is propaganda and that most addicts are the instigators of their own addiction.
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