A number of new sources are talking about the addiction paradigm this week.  For almost 100 years, alcoholism has been defined as a disease.  It took quite a while to get the condition out of the realm of a “moral failure” and into the realm of “medically defined disease.”

But is medicine doing anything to help cure addiction?  Or are they treating it as they treat most conditions:  by over-medicating?

I’ve long maintained that addiction is multi-faceted.  It really can’t be defined as simply a disease or any sort or moral issue.  It’s emotional.  And it’s deeply spiritual.

Medicine cannot touch that.

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