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Gabor Mate: Why Are We Addicted to Everything?

Metaphysical Milkshake with Rainn & Reza

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Is Addiction a Disease?

Gubor: I used to think addiction was just some kind of moral failing, right? It's like, if you're addicted to something, you've got a problem, and you should go and fix it. And then i started reading articles that kept saying,. no, no, no. Addiction should be thought of as an disease... You have to treat the disease and an addiction as a disease. The question is, does it have negative consequences on you personally, either physically or emotionally, or on your relationships? Yes or no? That's the one i'll have to think about a little bit more. But what i find fascinating is that, reading your material, your argument is

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