Wednesday, August 17, 2011

Addiction is a brain disease, experts declare


http://www.latimes.com/health/boostershots/la-heb-addiction-isbrain-disease-20110816,0,1680950.story

Addiction is “not simply a behavioral problem involving too much alcohol, drugs, gambling or sex,” the American Society of Addiction Medicine declared this week. Instead, the society notes, “Addiction is a primary, chronic disease of brain reward, motivation, memory and related circuitry.”

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