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Disease Concept of Chemical Dependency
April 25th, 2011 | Author: admin
The disease concept has long been accepted by the medical community. The concept proposes that a disease is characterized by a specific set of signs and symptoms and that the disease, if left untreated, will progress to some endpoint or outcome (clinical course).
However, controversy arises when the medical community is faced with new abnormal conditions, owing mostly to the new technologies in genetic engineering.This controversy becomes especially apparent when examining psychological disorders. In the past, psychological disorders were thought in general to be due to both psychological and social abnormalities. Although these psychosocial problems are still of utmost importance, researchers have since discovered that many psychological disorders, such as alcoholism, also have genetic causes.
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