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Saturday, November 21, 2009

United States Changes Its Mind on Addiction - It's Not a Chronic Brain Disease After All


The National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA) looks at addiction and finds most people overcome alcoholism on their own - most without even quitting drinking! Thus one government agency - the NIAAA - contradicts another (the National Institute on Drug Abuse) by deciding that addiction is not a chronic relapsing brain disease.

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