One reason is the lasting legacy of the disease model. The view that addiction is a disease remains dominant, if controversial. The disability model does not necessarily reject this view.

Realistic rodent model of drug addiction Ingenuity, not habit, sustains addiction in rats Date: November 20, 2017 Source: Society for Neuroscience ...

Journal article authored in the New England Journal of Medicine on January 27, 2016 expresses continued support of the disease model of addiction, moving the mark forward in addiction medicine.

Society for Neuroscience. "Rat models of opioid use and addiction explore risk of abuse." ScienceDaily. ScienceDaily, 6 November 2018. <www.sciencedaily.com / releases / 2018 / 11 / 181106171803.htm>.

Addiction specialist says new treatment models needed Published: Oct. 24, 2018, 1:00 p.m. Indra Cidambi, an addiction specialist and medical director at Network Therapy in Middlesex.

Nov. 6—When someone asks the question, "which came first, the chicken or the egg?" they want you to put in chronological order two different things: an egg, and one chicken. If you answer by ...

A growing field of research aims to examine the potential overlap between the characteristics and underlying mechanisms of drug addiction and obesity. Here, Fletcher and colleagues argue that ...

In standard brain disease models of addiction, the neurotoxic effects of abused psychoactive substances are thought to cause brain changes that spur compulsive cravings for drink, smokes, or dope.

5 Things the Disease Model Gets Wrong About Addiction. Denying an addict's will is a poor path to personal responsibility. Eve Tushnet . Feb 12, 2014 10:30 AM ...