Despite what the textbooks say or how much research is devoted to substance use disorder, I still meet people who feel that addiction is a "choice," and that these patients don't need "treatment" (you made your bed, and now you can just lay in it).
To a certain degree, this is true. Like Little Debbie cakes and type 2 diabetes, cigarettes and lung cancer, lack of exercise and essential hypertension, addiction ...
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