When you think of Drug/Alcohol use, Do you think of Addiction as a Disease/Disorder or a Nasty Habit that can be kicked?

[miamigirl1970]

There is a nationwide epidemic on Opiates and Heroin is back stronger and deadlier than ever... Is this nation in crisis? Please weigh in?

[pr3ttybr0wn]

Drug/alcohol abuse is NOT a disease. it is an addiction and a choice. cancer, diabetes is a disease. if you are a junkie that is not the same thing. it's funny how now that middle class whites are going through a drug epidemic that society is now changing the narrative and giving them sympathy and referring to an addiction as a disease. because when crack tore up the black community in the 80s all these crackheads were being incarcerated at high rates and they had harsh legislature like the mandatory minimums that tore families apart. now that it's hitting "polite society" we are giving crackheads treatment instead of jailtime its just funny. i say its an addiction

[JohnDoe3000]

It's all the same (every choice you make in life), with varying degrees of willpower required to change. Whether you want to call it all a disease or a habit doesn't really matter, but thinking there is a distinction between the two implies a false belief in some choices being 100% unavoidable and other choices being "free will".

[BigJake]

The research and clinical findings of the past 50 years are very clear: addiction is a genetic disorder. Some people are genetically prone to addiction based on variances in their dopaminergic systems.

[tha_vegangsta]

I think it's a nasty habit that can be kicked that turns into an addiction that's a disease/disorder.

[Rohan2]

I think people who do hard drugs are stupid. They know the consequences yet take the risk and bring down the rest of society.

It is a disease alright. A disease on society.

[Wingedz]

Is mostly a habit of addiction on it, they kept repeating because of the addiction and it turned into a bad habit