Why is addiction considered a disease?

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Specializing in treating addictions for over 13 years, Michael Fiori, MD, chief of Butler Hospital’s Alcohol and Drug Inpatient Treatment Unit, provides insight into why addiction to alcohol and other drugs is considered a disease. “How addiction is defined as a disease has been a charged question. Generally speaking, many people in society have looked at this as a character defect, as a weakness…and that’s just not true.”

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