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-experts say addiction has its roots in social dysfunction
-they argue that in order to cure an addiction, is to find the reasons for the addiction
-they say the majority of the worst addicts come from low-income, low-opportunity backgrounds
-experts say for people to have effective cures, they need to be personal and match their root reasons for their addiction

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-addiction is a purely biological and physical disease .- doctors believe that people  that are in drugs have changes in their behaviors .They argue that a drug never entirely subsumes an individual's decision-making capability and point to cigarette smokers to reinforce this argument.
-There are programs that embrace the idea of addiction as a behavioral trait that can be overcome using the strength of personal choice, such us  Rational Recovery (RR) program that believes that self-empowerment through abstinence is the crucial component of recovery,

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Addiction as a disease
- First recognized as a disease by the Alchoholics Anonymous in 1935
- it is treatable
-the brain of a drug addict is chemically different from that of a non-addict.
-biology is where addiction is rooted.
-if any of you parents is alcoholic, you have a four times greater chance of becoming an alcoholic than someone that doesn't have those parents.

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-Until the 1970s and early 1980s ,addiction was seen as a weakness, and addicts were believed to be self-centered and hedonistic.
- However, over the past decade, there has been a debate over the fundamental nature of addiction, which has resulted in very different models for effective treatment programs.

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-There is a drug that has been used to alleviate the withdrawal symptoms of cocaine called amantadine. It makes you "high" by increasing the dopamine activity in your brain.
Its symptoms are purplish swelling of ankles, restlessness, depression, and congestive heart failure.
-Also, something that is not recommended is dopamine blockers" because they severely affect normal feelings of pleasure. Other side effects include lack of motivation, joylessness, drooling, and jerky movements.

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-There is many people who believe  in the disease model of addiction medicate addicts during treatment.
-there is no miraculous solution to adiction.
-medications for marijuana and methamphetamine addiction do not exist
-cocaine and heroin abuse there are drawbacks to each but can be tarted.