It’s because addiction is seen as a moral failure, rather than what it actually is: a genetic neurological disease with behavioral symptoms. The treatments, most of which are shamed-based religious therapies from 100 years ago are the primary go-to even by the medical establishment. Would we ask someone suffering from psychosis or bi-polar to just sit in meetings and “get over it”? The “anonymous” treatments for these sorts of diseases haven’t been helpful, because they shuffle real scientific study away promising treatments. What other medical treatment has had a <25% success rate for over 100 years?
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