Addiction is a Chronic Brain Disease: Study

Addiction is quite common among most of the substance abusers. It takes very less time for a habit to become an addiction. Many think that people get addicted to any habit since they have low will power or might have low resistance power. But they are all not true say the experts group.

The doctors from the American Society for Addiction Medicine, announced that like all other disorders addiction is also a chronic brain disease and not the result of poor will power. They also added that similar to the treatment of all other disorders, addiction is treatable and is a long term endeavor.

The researchers have taken two decades to uncover how addiction hijacks different parts of the brain. They also explained what prompts the highs and lows of addiction and craving. The doctors from the society are firm on their statement that addiction is a brain disease and this behavioral problem is a result of brain dysfunction.

Even though people are not biologically vulnerable to begin alcohol or drug abuse, they might start using them due to stressful and painful environment. The chemical present in these substances named as dopamine conditions the brain to the routine use that are linked to getting something which the addicts found pleasurable. Once a person gets addicted completely, the warped system keeps going back even after the brain gets so used to the high that it is no longer pleasurable.

These researches have proved that getting addicted to certain substances is caused due to the brain's dysfunction and not due to any other psychological disorders.