![]() ![]() Rather, most alcoholics and addicts recover, and most of those do so without treatment of any kind, a finding that is difficult to reconcile with the idea that addiction is a chronic disease. Second, the strongest endorsements of the disease model come from the rehab industry and Big Pharma, both of which profit from the belief that addicts need long-term medical treatment. First, this perspective clashes with the experience of many former addicts, who do not feel they were ever sick or have now been cured. Yet there are reasons to question the validity of the disease perspective. Given these achievements, it isn’t surprising that the disease model of addiction is accepted-in fact nearly unchallenged-by the medical community, the psychiatric community, research funding bodies, and governments themselves, as reflected by a mountain of articles and posts by the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA), the National Institutes of Health (NIH), the American Medical Association (AMA), and the American Society of Addiction Medicine (ASAM). ![]()
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