

The Medical Aspects of Alcohol and other Drug Abuse Treatment
Despite all he advances in the scientific understanding of drug addiction as a disease, the vast majority of doctors continue to misdiagnose drug addiction and treat it as a psychological or moral problem. A huge industry has grown out of the the psychological disease model of drug addiction. The psychological approach assumes that drug addicts choose to use because of a stressful past or inability to manage current problems. Many treatment professionals try to identify and t