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Issue Brief #1: Defining Alcohol and Drug Addiction

Date:
December 2009
Source:
Open Society Foundations

Addiction meets all three of the medically defined criteria that are used to classify an entity as a disease: addiction has recognized causal agents, addiction has in identifiable group of signs and symptoms, and addiction causes changes in the body.

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