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Mon Aug 22

Viewpoints: is addiction a disease?

Written by Nicole Lee, Associate Professor at the National Drug Research Institute, Curtin University

We've long heard we can't blame people for their addiction because it's a disease, but is it? from www.shutterstock.com.au

Nicole Lee, Associate Professor at the National Drug Research Institute, Curtin University

We used to think of “addiction”, or what we now call dependence, as a moral failing. This had the result of...

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