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I think most of the medical field does treat it as a disease?
Source:
https://www.centeronaddiction.org/what-addiction/addiction-disease

However, let us take a look at this.

If treatment consist of learning to control urges, then it is probably not a disease. Maybe a "disorder" at best. Compare it to things like anxiety and depression where medicines can not cure you, but can make things easier. Those disorders are closer to "addiction" than a disease. I am NOT saying they are the "same", but closer.

Now, someone with a tumor(or disease), "needs" a doctor. No matter how much this person uses his willpower, his willpower is in no way a cure for his tumor.

I feel comparing someone with a tumor(an actual disease) to an addict(a mental disease) is unfair. An addict can potentially use "only" his willpower to cure himself, but the person with a tumor "must" have a doctor's treatment(or medicine).

It just is not the same... even if textbooks want to say it is, there should be a separation, at least in my opinion.

/endrant
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