Wiers points out that the view of addiction as a chronic brain disease, in which relapse is the norm, is heavily based on studies of patients who, for the most part, did relapse after treatment.

The brain disease model of addiction holds that SUDs are chronic, relapsing brain diseases and that relapses are symptoms, and part of the expected course, of the disease (Morse, 2017).

Journal article authored in the New England Journal of Medicine on January 27, 2016 expresses continued support of the disease model of addiction, moving the mark forward in addiction medicine.

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Researchers argue that "we may need to reevaluate the causal assumptions that underlie brain disease models of addiction." ...

Addiction is not simply a chronic brain disease and considering it as such can limit treatment options and increase stigma, an extensive research review suggests. After decades of research ...

Disease carries its own stigma, and the disease model of addiction can easily coexist with the conditions of power vs. helplessness and shame that make abuse easy.

The disease model of addiction seems to ignore the contemporary emphasis on neuroplasticity, the brain’s changeability. Even the nucleus accumbens, ...

The brain disease model of addiction holds that SUDs are chronic, relapsing brain diseases and that relapses are symptoms, and part of the expected course, of the disease (Morse, 2017).