Would Drug Addiction Be Considered a Medical or Social Issue?
Question by [email protected]: Would drug addiction be considered a medical or social issue?
I know that many consider addiction to be a disease.It has all of the symptoms of a life threatening problem.I was thinking of this today while reading in an online drug addiction forum,
http://navoices.com/
But was wondering what the general idea of non NA members would be.
So what do you think?
Best answer:
Answer by panda
there are addicts in all class of people. So I would say its a medical issue.
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Can You Help Me With Some Websites That Collarates Addiction to Genatic Predisposition?
Question by Isadora: Can you help me with some websites that collarates addiction to genatic predisposition?
I want websites that proves the theory by evidence that they isolated the gene responsible for drug abuse – addiction , if you pls :)?
I want them for a research about the same issue ………
Thank you all for mentioning.
*genetic , sorry for the typo……
Best answer:
Answer by Aria T
http://www.addictionstudies.org/science_update-genetics.html
This website discusses research on genetic vulnerability to addiction. However, I have yet to find ANY information (most likely because it doesn’t exist yet) that can point to one gene that is the cause of addiction. The human genome project hasn’t quite gotten there yet.
I Need Information on Weather Drug Addiction Is Inherieted or Is It Learned Behavior & the Difference Between?
Question by pookie: I need information on weather drug addiction is inherieted or is it learned behavior & the difference between?
Im doing a study on drug addiction and need to know whether it is inherited or passed down from generation to generation or do you learn to use drugs from family members or peer pressure.
Best answer:
Answer by zapata
98% of psychology uses intuition to describe,and analyze human behavior,anecdotal evidence might be dna studies,,,inconclusive,,,,societal factors,ditto,,,,,biological factors,such as sensitivity to foods,chemicals as these often bear on topics such as l/d,add/hd,anti social tendencies,if these professions understood drug addiction,they’d have vaccines