The disease of addiction (DOA), is the root of many behaviors which accelerate the host (person) to an early grave. The disease of addiction primairly manifests itself in one of five behavior clusters. Alcohol, drugs, sex, food and money. This disease has been afflicting the human race for at least the past seven thousand years, and has defied concerted efforts to understand, treat and recover individuals struggling with the complexity and tenacity of the disease.
Physicians, psychiatrists, psychologists and social workers inevitably and consistently misdiagnose the disease of addiction in the early stage of the disease as a mental or emotional or behavioral diagnosis and prescribe drugs to treat the secondary signs and symptoms of the undiagnosed primary disease. This induces IATROGENIC DISEASE and through medication accelerates the primary disease of addiction.
Iatrogenic means physician induced, caused by the omission or comission of the caregiver. The misdiagnosis does many things including leading the patient to have a false idea of what is wrong with them, giving the patient a misplaced sense of hope, delays the identification of and early treatment of the primary disease, allows the primary disease to worsen and progress, actually accelerates the progression of the primary disease in that often the addicted continue to drink and use illicit drugs in addition to the licit expensive drugs. Further dispupts the delicate brain chemistry which has been altered by alcohol and illicit drug use. Synergestically worsens the potential of conflicting combinations of drugs.
So the diagnosis of addiction, frequently missed in the diagnostic process, actually fools these well educated, degreed professionals.
This is historic, documented as the disease of addiction has a history in early recorded time. Church and religious leaders, the first social service agents for several centuries cited the cause of addiction as 1. weak will, 2. sinning, 3. inferior moral standards, and 4. possession by an evil spirit. Their attenpts at treatment fared much better than modern chemical interventions, which leave the addict with not cooccurring concominant diagnoses but instead, dual and triple addictions.
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