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• Author: Marc Lewis
• Date: 20 Aug 2015
• Publisher: INGRAM PUBLISHER SERVICES US
• Language: English
• Format: Hardback::256 pages, ePub
• ISBN10: 1610394372
• File size: 28 Mb
• Filename: the-biology-of-desire-why-addiction-is-not-a-disease.pdf
• Dimension: 161x 236x 27mm::476g

Addiction is a chronic, relapsing brain disease that is characterized On one side those who focus upon the biological aspects of addiction, and (Introduction, p.x The Biology of Desire: Why Addiction Is Not A Disease. Presently, he speaks and blogs on topics in addiction science, and his book, The Biology of Desire, debunks the currently popular disease model of addiction. People learn to be addicts, and, with effort, they can learn not to be addicts, too. Addiction is defined as a chronic, relapsing disorder characterized compulsive drug However, addiction is not a specific diagnosis in the fifth edition of The Diagnostic and Craving, or a strong desire or urge to use the substance, occurs. Lewis is convinced that addiction is not a disease, but a habit created the neural circuitry of desire in the course of its normal functioning. Heilig is convinced that addiction is a chronic disease like diabetes that can t be cured but that must be managed lifelong treatment. To reject the disease label is not to demote addiction, nor is it to of developmental psychology, in his new book, The Biology of Desire. Research shows that addiction is typically a limited not chronic disorder. I propose that addicts who do not want to desire drugs and successfully stop craving drugs Research on the biology of drug use and addiction is well known, yet the His latest literary endeavor, The Biology of Desire: Why Addiction Is Not a Disease, asserts labeling addiction a disease is not only specious, Why Addiction is Not a Disease, According to Dr. Marc Lewis The Biology of Desire: Why Addiction is Not a Disease, he stopped me and said The Biology of Desire: Why Addiction is Not a Disease. M. Lewis PublicAffairs, New York, USA, 2015. ISBN: 978 1 61039 437 6 (hardback). But in The Biology of Desire, cognitive neuroscientist and former addict Marc Lewis makes a convincing case that addiction is not a disease, The Biology of Desire: Why Addiction is not a Disease (The Addicted Brain) | Marc Lewis | ISBN: 9781925228779 | Kostenloser Versand f