Is addiction really a disease?

[Jemmons]

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Im not anti AA. I dont know enough about AA to really have an informed opinion. I know that they are not currently offering an effective and acceptable solution for any and all addicted people. And I dont believe that they have a solution that solid science cant find a better alternative to.

I have a deep respect for faith and I dont share the arrogant attitude towards religion that you find in some academics and a lot of scientists. If people can find value in a faith based method im all for it. I dont think that AA was intended as solid science and I also dont think that AA by a miraculous chance event has managed to become solid science quite unintended.

I think that science will have a better solution in the long run, even if it might not be the case right now.

I understand addiction from a cognitive science point of view. That means the usual bio-psycho-social model as a starting point, but perhaps with more emphasis on the biological part than most psychologists and more on psychology than most psychiatrists.

I grew up with addiction as a constant companion and that might color my thinking, but im surprised that anybody would not find addiction the most interesting you could ever talk about.