Why is addiction now considered a 'disease'?
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Why is addiction now considered a 'disease'?
Why is addiction now considered a 'disease'?
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Because we live in a democratic society where women are in the majority and women never want to be held accountable for anything
>never want to be held accountable for anything
Fricking prostitutes gives you AIDS and its your fault but AIDS is still a disease
Is that supposed to be a comparable analogy? Maybe you should consider working on your reading comprehension skills.
men make-up the majority of addicts
you were ill during the bone broken part, you're cured once it's consolidated
what's so hard to understand ?
>men make-up the majority of addicts
It's to put up with women's bullshit.
>you were ill during the bone broken part
here is the difference though. you can accidentally fall down the stairs. you cant accidentally smoke crack. Its like these daredevil mountain climbers using my tax dollars to helicopter their broken asses out of the mountains.
Now there may be validity in becoming an addict to painkillers after an accident, so I'm not slamming the door in your face. But someone who uses free choice to destroy their lives needs to find a way out by themselves. Dont tell me you are ill.
>take a substance
>your body craves it so much it destroys your health, mind, and social life
that's an illness
>women never want to be held accountable for anything
isn't that the truth!
da fuq is with them. Hormones obviously make them that way, but why?
>. Hormones obviously make them that way
no, but simp lords do
Hormones made them that way. Estrogen does this
>women never want to be held accountable for anything
>men are addicts but it's women's fault
Like pottery.
it's toxic narcissists fault.
those statements aren't in contradiction, you sufferer from an estrogen addled-brain
Whatever makes you feel like it's not your fault.
Actually Kek’d
First of all most women are addicted to upcummies on social media, secondly if it's possible to acknowledge anyone as being an addict in the first place it means that there already has to be a definition or cultural understanding of addiction, and if women have shaped that in such a way it could create a situation where men appear to be the majority of addicts.
The right answer. All the other replies are women or trannies who have internalized too much the lie they live with.
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Because it is a disease. Having seizures from withdrawal isnt a psychological effect, the brain chemistry is changed by drugs to the point it can't work without them
>fall down the stairs
>bone breaks
>bone structure permanently changed because of the incident
>mfw I'm ill now
frick off with that moronic definition
I dont accept your dumb analogies. You act as if a disease cant be a disease just because its self inflicted. Theres tons of self inflicted diseases but they are still diseases.
Shut up moron
It's not a disease, but a moral failure which can be changed through many means such as imprisonment, religious conversion, etc. Actual diseases can't be cured in this manner
>. Actual diseases can't be cured in this manne
Most diseases go away on their own including cancer. And many addicts die without their drugs
>And many addicts die without their drugs
Which drugs? Alcohol is the only drug that can be lethal during withdrawal
Benzo withdrawal kills
heroin, many other opiates, benzos
cancer goes away with the person's life, not too sure it's an adequate comparison
You are ignorant, cancer goes into remission all the time. Spontaneously. Lots of people get cancer and it just goes away without ever bothering them. Loys of people also get cancers so small that they die of old age before the cancer does anything.
Plus, killing isnt what defines a disease. The flu is almost never lethal and it goes away on its own. What even is your point, you think before medicine no one ever got over any disease?
Remission doesn't mean the cancer "goes away". Remission means the cancer is not spreading/growing.
So? Lots of people live in such a state. With small cancers that dont bother them or that grow so slow they die of old age before the cancer does anything
So.. the cancer didn't "go away".
>goes into remission all the time
my good friend Kaplan-Meier would like a word with you
no point in arguing with you either way, you barely have a highschool-level understanding of biology
You don't even have an argument
>says moronic and utterly moronic non-fact
>that was genuinely cretinic anon
>you don't have an argument
no shit Sherlock, there are no arguments to be made here, you're massively ignorant and uneducated, don't expect anything but ridicule and scorn
You are wrong. People survive cancer all the time with no treatment or just live with cancer no problem
Yes it does go away. Cancer can go spontaneously into remission. It may come back but just as it spreads it can also shrink.
As you've already agreed to, remission doesn't mean the cancer is gone. All remission means is that the cancer is no longer spreading. That doesn't mean cancer has "gone away" (I.e. decreased in some way). have a nice day moron.
>remission doesn't mean the cancer is gone
You are just being a contrarian and enjoy arguing things
Black person Black person Black person
Just admit you were wrong, lol.
Im not wrong. You are trying to argue semantics but it doesnt even apply. I didnt say cancers just stop growing, but that they shrink. They dissapear. That isnt just remission.
Cancer isnt necessarily lethal or bothersome. How does cancer dissapear on its own? It just does, sometimes.
>People survive cancer all the time with no treatment or just live with cancer no problem
that's factually wrong
cancer mortality is 100% if untreated, you're describing either benign tumours that were never harmful to begin with, or very specific outlier cases that are not satistically significant enough to make your argument viable
and even if those rare cases were common (they're not), a cancer doesn't just sit idly in a body, it causes chronic inflammation, blood cell perturbations, and localized complications, along with other health problems
again, your stupidity is palpable, if you're not willing to educate yourself in order to make decent posts, just have a nice day instead of wasting everybody's time you stupid piece of garbage
>cancer mortality is 100% if untreated
This is 100% untrue. Theres no point arguing details with you if you start with a lie
Lol yeah because the majority of opioid users are atheists, not boomer evangelicals. Drug war glowBlack folk are fricking delusional.
What's the definition of disease?
disease it's When you are medic, you are hungry and don't have money
dis·ease (dĭ-zēz′)
n.
1. An abnormal condition of a part, organ, or system of an organism resulting from various causes, such as infection, inflammation, environmental factors, or genetic defect, and characterized by an identifiable group of signs, symptoms, or both.
2. A condition or tendency, as of society, regarded as abnormal and harmful.
3. Obsolete Lack of ease; trouble.
[Middle English disese, from Old French : des-, dis- + aise, ease; see ease.]
abnormal. it's subjective.
This is a very rare thing though
your theory is example of schizophasia
/misc/ is cancer
Now?
NOW homie?
NOW homie?!
NOW??????
LMAO GTFO SCI OR STOP POSTING THIS DUMB SHIT
>Why is addiction now considered a 'disease'?
Disease = more socially acceptable = "not your fault" = leftist ideology = more money to be made from the loser addicts.
It's the product of people being halfway determinists who believe addiction is a state where chemical reactions dictate behavior but also that other non-addicted behaviors somehow aren't subject to causality.
Really if addiction is a disease then you might as well say all harmful behavior like crimes, mistakes, poor judgements, etc. are also diseases caused by chemicals in the brain. Many criminologists already take that stance on crime (that it's all done by victims of their own genes and environment and instead of punishing them you really need to rehabilitate them).
Sounds like a feedback loop to create more crazy people and criminals.
Almost like they are intentionally wanting to destabilize western society.
The three natural/material/scientific futures are anarchy, utopia, or dystopia. You're not contributing to either of the former, so what choice are politicians left with per your beliefs?
>politicians
worthless useless creatures.
Anarchy sounds really nice about now. Having grown up in a cartel feudal border zone, anarchy was a neat way of life. Strongest shall survive.
Go all in then, don't pussy out for a world that's inconsistent as frick.
The only way to live bro. Frick the system.
take look at DSM-5. now realize it's all projections.
>Sounds like a feedback loop to create more crazy people and criminals.
Not necessarily. Its a recipe for exchanging jails for psychiatric hospitals. Some mental diseases have treatments, others do not. You can treat some criminal as a mental patient without releasing him into the streets.
>instead of punishing them you really need to rehabilitate them).
Yeah, that's what we do in white countries. We have less crime and fewer repeat offenders. If it doesn't work in your country it might be because it's a Black person shithole. Sucks to be you, I guess.
i cant stop buying and drinking alcohol even though I want to and I know its killing me
its like I forget that i feel my body getting weaker and the hangovers getting worse, and I just keep sip sip sippin
i legit have no control over myself often, its really not like im just a moron that wants to drink, its like the drug has completely subverted my conscious mind, ergo its a mental illness
It took me a couple of years of watching into bathroom mirrors and asking "why the frick have I got wasted again?!"
It's all willpower. I got myself addicted to alcohol over the pandemic, to where I puking blood some nights after tearing my esophagus. I was straight up taking shots of whiskey.
Now I've considerably cut down (but still drink enough to be labeled an alcoholic, "just" 3-4 drinks most nights). This is because I have social outings two days a week which involves alcohol, and I kinda go on a brief bender for the next few nights. Rinse and repeat.
But if not for the social pressure I'd quit. I can go weeks without drinking. The secret is that I occupy my time with events that are interesting to me, like biking.
being addicted to alcohol is unironically blessed. it is called "spirit" for a reason.
>I was straight up taking shots of whiskey.
homie that means literally nothing, are you moronic?
Does vaccine count as addiction? Some people literally cannot live anymore without getting regular boosters.
The war on drugs really wasn't working so "Treat addiction like a disease not a crime" was a catchy idea. Most diseases can be treated with medication or lifestyle changes. Diabetes, asthma, gout, etc. That's what the slogan originally meant. It works well under that interpretation.
The meaning gradually got corrupted. Now addiction is treated like an incurable disease like down syndrome or terminal cancer. It gives addicts an excuse to avoid treatment. Instead everybody else has to enable them or they're intolerant of medical conditions.
>Now addiction is treated like an incurable disease like down syndrome or terminal cancer. It gives addicts an excuse to avoid treatment
You are projecting
its a big problem, but i wonder if classifying it as a "disease" will cause them to start proscribing "treatments" in the form of overpriced pills that do jack shit or even make the problem worse
How interesting you wondered about a stupid fantasy you imagined yourself
You can always tell a normalgroid immigrant by its irrational kneejerk reactions upon being faced with basic facts about the system it worships.
If one could take a pill that would suddenly cure autistic incel-dom, you'd guzzle them like tic-tacs, do not lie.
money
what if i got addicted to the idea of having no addictions? what would science do then?
For the same reason that getting shot is tracked by the CDC. Some kind of globohomosexual thing.
Checkmate science. Where's your experiment god now?
I thought about this girl the other day when she laughs and says "it's sticky"
what a weird b***h
>now
Why wouldn't it be? There's lots of self-induced diseases.
Because american homosexuals are careless with language.
Drug-induced injury is obviously a health issue but it is not a "disease".
dumbest thread on IQfy right now, and that's saying something
Because it's not a moral failing. If someone wants their body to do something, but chemistry, in this case chemistry of the brain, prevents them from doing so, it's a disease.
hunger is disease, so is thirst, and sexual desire.
to fight overpopulation for money
note how psychiatrists are addicted to giving diagnoses to people and inventing new illnesses
>A disease is a particular abnormal condition that negatively affects the structure or function of all or part of an organism, and that is not immediately due to any external injury
by definition anything that negatively affects us can be labeled a disease but how you address the issue is in my opinion where the criticism should lie. The release of pleasure chemicals on a consistent basis is a neurological disease.