It appears that the dilution of the disease model is complete. We’ve all heard of video games being referred to as an addiction, but now there’s a four to eight week residential treatment program.
What does this kind of thing do to public acceptance of the disease model as applied to drug and alcohol addiction?
Does the over-application of the concept render it meaningless?
Does it increase or reduce the stigma associated with drug addiction?
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I have been an addiction professional and social worker since 1994. I started blogging in 2005 as the Clinical Director at Dawn Farm. I no longer work at Dawn Farm and am now the Director of Behavioral Medicine at a community hospital, and a lecturer at Eastern Michigan University’s School of Social Work.
Views expressed here are my own.
Keep in mind that the field, the contexts in which the field operates, and my views have changed over time.
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