Should Addiction to Drugs be Labeled as Brain Disease? (eBook)

Alexus Stiles (Autor)

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2019 | 1. Auflage
11 Seiten
GRIN Verlag
978-3-668-95492-2 (ISBN)

Infos

Academic Paper from the year 2019 in the subject Biology - Diseases, Health, Nutrition, grade: 100.00%, , course: Public Health and Policy, language: English, abstract: There has been debate on whether or not addiction to drugs should be considered a brain disease. The idea of addiction as a disease first came about in 1987, 31 years after alcoholism was labeled a disease by the American Medical Association in 1956 (n.d.c). In Unit 3 of Taking Sides: Clashing Views in Health and Society, Leshner and Slate (2018) both provide opposing arguments on the subject. Leshner is arguing that addiction is a brain disease while Slater argues that it is not a brain disease.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 11.6.2019
• Verlagsort: München
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie
• Themenwelt: Weitere Fachgebiete ► Land- / Forstwirtschaft / Fischerei
• Schlagworte: addiction • brain disease • Healthcare • Public Health
• ISBN-10: 3-668-95492-5 / 3668954925
• ISBN-13: 978-3-668-95492-2 / 9783668954922