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Podcast: Busting Addiction and Its Myths
Episode: What We've Learned So Far
Description: It’s a disease, stupid!Paraphrasing a famous political slogan from the US, this episode offers slam-dunk proof that addiction and alcoholism are disease states, and that the addict has lost his power of choice when the disease compels him to inflict harm on himself and others.We cover these topics:1. Addiction and alcoholism are recognised by the leading scientists in the US as chronic, relapsing diseases of the brain, causing compulsive using behaviour and loss of control over intake, despite harmful long-term consequences.2. The main take-away is that addiction is compulsive so t...