Re: Addiction is a disease?
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Furthermore, I think in many studies, you may not be looking at a homogenous group. What way do you have of seperating real physical addicts from the types of sociopaths who flunk out of college because they played to much Xbox?
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You really don't think shrinks can distinguish between these groups? Clinical psychology programs are harder to get into med school these days, and hese folks have PhD's for a reason.
(rant) More people doubt psychology than perhaps any other scientific field, though its results are often more reliable than those of physicists, doctors, and virtually all fields of social science. This is because they insist on an emphasis on empirical validity not seen in other fields (probably out of necessity). Yet while people admit they don't know anything about higher level physics or economics, many seem to think they understand human behavior to a much greater extent than they do. Maybe this is why soo many people question every single finding in psychology, but simply accept findings in other sciences much more readily.
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