Substance abuse: disease or moral failure

Substance Abuse
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SUBSTANCE ABUSE
Excessive use of abuse of drugs and alcohol usually causes addiction to the users. Abuse of drugs and alcohol is very common in the contemporary world and leads to hazardous consequences. Different people and communities view substance abuse of drugs and alcohol differently (Flowers, 2010). However, many signs indicate that drugs and alcohol abuse of these substances can be considered as a persistent medical disease affecting the brain. There is a great personal belief that if this addiction is treated and handled as disease, rates of long-term success would be registered in numerous cases. Various personal views explain why substance abuse can be considered as a disease.
Substance abuse bears similarities with the other chronic diseases such as hypertension, diabetes as well as asthma. Through various researches performed during the last twenty years, it is easy to note that dependence of substance is a brain illness. It is a medical state that has neurobiological...