Addiction Information

http://theinfluence.org/i-have-rights-like-any-other-person-how-the-worlds-drug-users-created-something-great-in-durban-last-week/

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/marc-lewis/post_9729_b_7715792.html

Addiction Is Not a Brain Disease, and That's Good News We don't have to ignore the biology of addiction to appreciate its psychology and to approach those who suffer humanistically rather than moralistically.

“Addicts aren’t diseased,” Lewis writes, “and they don’t need medical intervention in order to change their lives. What they need is sensitive, intelligent social scaffolding to hold the pieces of their imagined future in place — while they reach toward it.”

I agree with this statement 100%. This does not mean that medical intervention is not ever needed for people who use drugs, but to approach addiction as a disease that requires treatment causes more problems than it solves.

Addiction is not a disease: A neuroscientist argues that it’s time to change our minds on the... A psychologist and former addict insists that the illness model for addiction is wrong, and dangerously so