Editorial: Addiction is a Disease

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Interesting opinion piece, published this month in Canadian Medical Association Journal.

Health professionals too often think and behave negatively toward addicts and addiction. In this, we share the attitudes of our society, in which substance abuse is one of the last remaining socially acceptable targets for public discrimination. But we ought to know better. If we are to succeed in treating addiction as a disease — which it is — we need to acknowledge and overcome our negative attitudes so that we can help patients with addiction and guide how the public perceives them...

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