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Addiction is a condition that has long baffled physicians and philosophers, to say nothing of those struggling with it and those around them. People have long debated whether addiction is a ...

Lev Facher covers the U.S. addiction and overdose crisis ... one of which read “autism is not a disease,” an apparent reference to a press conference this week during which he said autism ...

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we had this shared bond around looking at mental illness from a perspective of empathy and at addiction as a disease. I had no idea the way in which this would peel back the onion for myself as well.

"But with addiction, it's not a moral failure," he said. "And whether you call it a disease or an allergy or whatever… It's certainly a very powerful thing that manifests itself in so many ...