In practice, many treatment approaches blend both perspectives, recognizing the physiological aspects of addiction while also promoting personal responsibility. Responsibility for solving this problem should not fall on health professionals alone, however. Once upon a time we could blame the American Psychiatric Association’s Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM) for medicalising experience and… Continue reading Drug addiction Is it a disease or is it based on choice? A review of Gene Heyman’s Addiction: A disorder of choice