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Addiction can be treated but it can't be cured, hence the expression 'once an addict always an addict'.

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No, it can be cured. It's harder in some than others, though.

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You can treat addicts in so far as you can get an addict to stop using. But addiction to drugs like heroin permanently alters brain chemistry. A recovered addict can never be an occasional user of an addictive substance in the way a non-addict can be, so can never be 'cured' - the compulsivity remains and needs to be continually monitored. That's really not my opinion, so much as it's accross the board accepted wisdom in addiction medicine.

And, I wasn't for one minute suggesting astrology is something I think has much merit, I was just mentioning that article because I thought it was interesting [img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img]