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[quote=Anonymous]I was just at the National Association of Drug Court Professionals' annual conference last week. All of the current research states that alcoholism and other addictions should clearly be treated in the medical model, that is, they are just as much a disease as any other. As a PP mentioned, many addicts are self-medicating and have co-occuring mental health disorders. I think what gets a lot of people upset is that there is an element of choice with addictions, whereas with cancer, many cancer patients had no choice. It's hard for me to sometimes think of addictions as a disease (my father is an alcoholic; his father died of cancer, as did my mother's parents), but according to the medical profession, it is very much a disease and research that shows the physical affect of drugs and alcohol on the brain is both frightening and fascinating.[/quote]
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