Why Addiction is a “disease” and why is it important

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Published 2018-05-21

This webcast, Why addiction is a “disease” and why it’s important, defines what is a disease and why it is important to emphasize addiction/substance use disorder (SUD) as a brain disease from a neurobiological perspective as well as from a biopsychosocial perspective. Discussion will also include that treatment is available and people can recover.

To learn more, visit www.samhsa.gov/power-perceptions-understanding

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