Is addiction a disease of the brain ... What starts out as a voluntary choice gets quickly encoded in the neural circuity and relegated to automatic processes that leave little room for conscious ...

And unlike most of the media and the addiction-treatment industry, they usually don’t think of it as a “brain disease.” That ...

The Brain Disease model inspired a way of thinking ... This is often overlooked, as when people view addiction as a choice, it is easy to conclude that this choice is between intoxication and ...

Understand sobriety, like recovery, is not linear. Addiction is a disease and it’s very complex and unless you, yourself, or someone very close to you has struggled with addiction — it’s ...