Recovery | Top 10 Reasons We Should Never Call Addiction a Disease

Top 10 Reasons We Should NEVER Call Addiction A ‘Disease’ 1-It sets the alcoholic & addict up for pure failure. 2-It stigmatizes alcohol & drug dependent people for life. 3-It shifts the responsibility from alcoholics/addicts to taxpayers. 4-It presents the alcoholic/addict as a victim or someone to emulate(76). 5-It leads the alcoholic/addict to believe they can’t recover on their own. 6-It traps the alcoholic/addict in a world inhabited by fellow disease sufferers. 7-It brutalizes and brainwashes the young and those who aren’t truly addicted. 8-It excludes all other approaches, many of which have been proven far more successful. 9-It ignores the rest of the alcoholics/addicts problems in favor of blaming them all on the disease. 10-It promotes false beliefs and inappropriate attitudes, as well as harmful, wasteful, and ineffective social policies. -How can those promoting an incurable disease possibly say they’re helping people with such a destructive belief?
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