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Re:Changes in midlife death rates across racial and ethnic g... by dragonwriter on Thursday August 16, 2018 @12:41PM (#17776235)
> I don't think addiction is a disease or a moral failing, it's more a product of the environment of the addict.

Diseases are very often products of the environment.

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Re:Changes in midlife death rates across racial and ethnic g... by CptFribble on Thursday August 16, 2018 @01:34PM (#17776786)
That's very true. I guess I'm referring to "disease" in a too-narrow pathological sense.

We're all complex open systems so of course disease and environment are intertwined, I just find that when lay-people like me refer to addiction as disease, they typically mean a narrow definition of "let's find a problem with your brain that we can fix," and not much else.

Maybe I was addressing an imaginary counter-argument!

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