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Addiction should not be redefined as disease


By: Zein Kattih COLUMNIST

The American Society of Addiction Medicine in Aug. 2011 redefined addiction as “a primary, chronic disease of brain reward, motivation, memory and related circuitry.” The definition, at its root, was meant to reduce some of the stigma associated with a…