Through all of the research done about drug addiction and its affects on the brain, one can see how drug addiction is considered ... Drug addiction is a disabling disease and can ruin a person's life.

Addiction is a neurologically based disease. ... Addicts and non addicts alike have a hard time believing that drug or alcohol use is anything more than a choice that is made in response to a habit.

Drug Abuse: A Preventable Behavior; Drug Addiction: A Treatable Diseas ... Also, the treatments must address addiction as both a disease--in which the biology of the brain has changed--and as a

The American Medical Association has given formal recognition to the disease concept since 1956. Their recognizing alcoholism and other drug addiction as an illness implies several things:

A highlight of the upcoming American Psychiatric Association (APA) Annual Meeting will be a special research-based program track on drug abuse and addiction.

Illicit drug addiction, infectious disease spread, and the need for an evidence-based response. By - Evan Wood, Julio S Montaner, Thomas Kerr ... Evan Wood a , ... This article is made available free of charge,

Alcoholism and drug addiction -- a disease or a crime? Drug and alcohol abuse is no longer socially acceptable. For those who have not yet seen the movie ... AIDS and IV drug use, ... diet and addiction

Find out facts about why scientists consider drug addiction a chronic disease, and the roles that one's environment and genetics also play.

"Addiction is a disease," said Bill Janes, director of the Florida Office of Drug Control.

Is Drug Addiction a Brain Disease?: Two psychiatrists oppose the current campaign to declare drug addiction a chronic, "no-fault" disease and argue that addiction is a modifiable behavioral ...