US Government Bill Labels Addiction as a Disease The Recognizing Addiction as a Disease Act of 2007, sponsored by Sen. Joseph Biden (D-Del.), seeks to literally rewrite the federal government’s language regarding addiction and recovery, ABC News reported Aug. 3. The legislation calls for renaming the National Institute on Drug Abuse as the “National Institute …∞
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The topic of alcoholism and the damage it causes to families are most frequently looked at from the standpoint of the alcoholic male. Less in focus is the phenomenon of the alcoholic woman
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