Viewing addiction as a brain disease promotes social injustice

Carl L. Hart ()
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Nature Human Behaviour, 2017, vol. 1, issue 3, 1-1

Abstract: The view of drug use and drug addiction as a brain disease serves to perpetuate unrealistic, costly, and discriminatory drug policies, argues Carl L. Hart.

Date: 2017
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