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Is Addiction A Habit Or A Disease?

Neuroscience

A neuroscientist takes on the National Institute on Drug Abuse’s assertion that addiction is a brain disease—a classification he finds not only flawed but dangerous.

Zachary Siegel
Zachary Siegel
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