Is Addiction a Mental Illness?
Addiction is a mental illness as much as depression and schizophrenia, says Nora Volkow, MD, Director of the National Institute on Drug Abuse at the National Institutes of Health. Find out why she thinks so, in this video.
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Yes, it's a mental illness. Maybe it was just the fact I like to call it the brain
disease, but like I would call schizophrenia brain disease, depression brain disease, so the term of using mental versus brain.
And mental connotes in my brain more a sort of an intermediate step.
And clearly, with neuroscience what we know is the brain. These are brain diseases. At the end of the day, what you have is a compulsive behavior
that cannot be inhibited despite the awareness of wanting not to do it.
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