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• Is Drug Dependency a Disease?

  January 15, 2018 The Noffs Team Comments

  Drug Dependency and the Disease Theory The disease theory describes drug dependency as a chronic neurological and biomedical disorder of the brain, where harmful substance use alters brain chemistry and structure which triggers a dependence on that substance. Proponents of the disease theory argue that once dependent, the individual can ...