Addiction is not a matter of weakness and lack of willpower. It’s a matter of changes in brain structure and brain function. Agree or disagree?

[Kingofkings1992]

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9 mo

5 guys clearly don’t understand what addiction is.

[seeyounexttuesday]

Addiction is spurred by someone trying to numb some pain in their life, then it takes over. IT's not a disease. You can't catch it from someone else.

[Kingofkings1992]

A disease isn’t limited to something that you can catch from another person. The definition of a disease is a disorder of structure or function in a human, animal, or plant, especially one that has a known cause and a distinctive group of symptoms, signs, or anatomical changes.

[seeyounexttuesday]

You don't choose to have diseases, usually.

[Kingofkings1992]

You don’t choose addiction either. Using the substance for the first time is a choice, and getting help is a choice, but the development of addiction is not. Addiction is much more complex mental disorder than most other ones, but it’s stigmatized by a portion of society because of deep rooted misconceptions about it.

[exitseven]

Saying it is a disease like cancer is a crock. People with an addiction made a choice. Nobody gets a choice with cancer.

[Phoenix98]

Not in the beginning at first it is a choice.

[douride2]

Addiction is about bad choices in life.