What is addiction? For the majority who have strong opinions on the matter, addiction is a disease. In fact it’s “a chronic relapsing brain disease” according to the American National Institute on Drug Abuse. This definition, born of the marriage between medicine and neuroscience, is based on the finding that the brain changes with addiction.…
Clare Bowditch from Afternoons on 774 ABC Radio Melbourne sat down with SMART Recovery Australia National Program Coordinator, Josette Freeman, to discuss the SMART Recovery program, the fact it’s a growing alternative to AA meetings, and why addiction should not a be considered a disease.
