Drug Addiction and Alcoholism; A Treatable Illness
Drug addiction and alcohol addiction are comparable to chronic illnesses like diabetes, asthma, and hypertension, and should be treated as such,according to an article published in a year 2000 issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association.
Authors Thomas McLellan, Ph.D., and Herbert D. Kleber, M.D., conducted aliterature review of those illnesses, revealing that there areunderlying similarities between drug addiction, alcohol addiction and chronic diseases. Yet, saythe researchers, drug addiction is typically treated as if it is an acutecondition. Altering perceptions to think of drug addiction as a chronicillness may change the way it is treated and insured.
The researchers found that drug addiction and alcoholism shares many of the characteristicsof other chronic illnesses. In the area of
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Typically, both medical professionals and the general public view drug abuse as voluntary activities. That people choose to use drugsseems to set drug addiction and alcohol adidiction apart from other chronic illnesses. Yet, thereare many chronic illnesses in which voluntary choice affects initiationand maintenance of disease. Salt sensitivity, obesity, stress level, andphysical inactivity, all within voluntary control, are important factorsin the development of
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Drug addiction and alcoholism also resembles other chronic illnesses in regard to treatmentresponse. The course that an drug addiction takes if left untreated is animportant issue in this regard. Studies comparing treated and untreatedpopulations of addicts have typically shown that untreated, addictionsdo not remit.
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...know is that dual diagnosis treatment programs exist in most private drug rehab and alcohol rehab programs today. The merging od addiction treatment services and psychiatric treatment services has made for a much more effective addiction treatment setting. The ability ...