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Meth Update: 'Try Some Of This May Be Beginning of Addiction

Mercury-Register
The flight from reality has existed for all of recorded history, but the study of addiction is a relatively new field.
The Alcoholics Anonymous school of thought places the problem on the use of alcohol. Narcotics Anonymous takes a broader approach, identifying addiction as the problem. A shared reality seems to be that addicted people have a preferred drug, but when that isn't available they aren't so particular. The next addition of the American Psychiatric Association's diagnostic manual is shifting back to the word "addiction" after abandoning it for the less stigmatizing "chemical dependency."

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