Los Angeles, California - From Refugee Camp to Research Leadership: Dr. Edythe London's Quest to Conquer Addiction In a captivating Genomic Press Interview published in Brain Medicine, Dr. Edythe ...
Mental health experts are nearly unanimous in endorsing the disease model of addiction. Alcoholism (now alcohol use disorder) was declared a disease in 1956 by the American Medical Association, and ...
It is not a recent trend in thinking. As early as 1784 in the United States, Benjamin Rush discussed addiction in terms that anticipated the disease model (Mann, Hermann, & Heinz, 2000). In 1956, the ...