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Re:What If Addiction Is Not a Disease? by posterboy on Monday August 08, 2016 @11:00PM (#12252302)
environmental factors (e.g. bad air), learned behavioral patterns (hygiene) and economic disparities (to afford a doctor) all play a role in the course of a lung infection, even leading to death, too. I don't think it isn't a prime example of a disease.
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Re:What If Addiction Is Not a Disease? by vasilipupkin on Wednesday August 10, 2016 @10:49AM (#12262167)
understood. But what matters to me when I am in the hospital with a lung infection is how to treat it so that it goes away, not what it's called
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