• Keld [he/him, any]@hexbear.netOP
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    1 month ago

    Only in the sense that everything surrounding addiction is. But addiction as disease is just the correct heuristic and is used by everyone from psychiatrists to therapists to laypeople.

    • novibe@lemmy.ml
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      1 month ago

      It definitely is not used by everyone, specially not addictions specialists. It’s a highly controversial theory that has 0 empirical proof.