Addiction

Many clinicians don’t view addiction as a disease, which they believe relieves them of the need to learn much about its pathophysiology.

One characteristic of Delta FosB is its unusual stability. It’s capable of persisting in the brain for a very long time.

It makes us uncomfortable to acknowledge that degree of helplessness.

Ultimately, you are the only one that makes decisions about your life.

There’s always someone who is convinced that with the right support, the right technique, they could once again drink socially.

He’s able to describe complex phenomena in terms that, with a little work at least, we can understand.

The idea was that the drinker would admit his sins, beg forgiveness, accept punishment, and promise to abstain from that point on.

However necessary — and it is necessary — good acute care will never be enough to solve the problem of addictions.

By examining the models through which people view and deal with addiction, we can better understand how our society reacts to its continuing presence.

There’s a big difference between “knowing” that something is a disease, and actually treating it as one.