Survey Says
Ask 10 people to define addiction and its causes and you are likely to get 10 different answers.
There are some who still believe addiction is a failure of morality or a spiritual weakness, even a sin or a crime.
To the non-drinker it’s often a problem of self-control; for sociologists, poverty; for educators, ignorance.
Psychiatrists or psychologists might say that addiction is has its roots in personality traits; temperament and character being the basis of addictive “personalities.” Social-learning and cognitive-behavior theorists will call it a conditioned response. Biologists may say it is all in the genes and heredity; anthropologists will tell you that it’s cultural.
Well-known politicians have been heard to blame it on the breakdown of family values.
The general consensus today is that addiction, and addictive behavior, are diseases.
But I’ll bet that’s because they never asked you…
What is addiction? And what causes it?
Inquiring minds, both inebriated and not, want to know…
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