Addiction is a Chronic Disease

Drug addiction shares many features with other chronic illnesses, including a tendency to run in families (heritability), an onset and course that is influenced by environmental conditions and behavior, and the ability to respond to appropriate treatment, which may include long-term lifestyle modification.

(http://www.nida.nih.gov/about/welcome/aboutdrugabuse/chronicdisease/)

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DRUG ABUSE

Sometimes people do choose behaviors that have undesirable effects. Personal responsibility and behavioral change are major components of any credible treatment program. Addiction, like heart disease, cancers, and type II diabetes, is a real and complex disease.

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The 2007 Drug Abuse Warning Network (DAWN) report on drug-related mortality, titled “Drug Abuse Warning Network, 2007: Area Profiles of Drug-Related Mortality” is now available. This publication provides detailed information about drug-related deaths based on reports from participating medical examiners and coroners across the nation.

To order NIDA publications, please visit www.drugabuse.gov or contact the NIDA Research Dissemination Center at 1-877-643-2644.

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As with all complex diseases, environmental risk and protective factors interact with genetics to determine the course and outcome of disease. Identifying and modifying environmental factors that contribute to health and disease are part of NIDA's mission, as well as that of the other NIH Institutes and Centers.

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Addiction is a Chronic Disease