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Addiction is a community issue

Addiction is a community issue

From the course: Addiction: A Community Issue

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Addiction is a community issue

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- I love the idea of talking about addiction being a community issue. In fact, the title of this entire course is Addiction is a Community Issue. And the reason I love it so much is that I think it's a highly neglected aspect of addiction, and I think it's partly because people don't really know what this means. So, what exactly does this mean? Well, for a long time, having an addiction was considered a personal problem. In fact, it has such a grip on people that many experts spoke about it as a brain disease that we can do nothing about once it takes over. These days, this view is changing. People are actually realizing that we don't exist in isolation. As obvious as that sounds, we often behave that way, right? In fact, we are profoundly impacted by the people who surround us and the places we work in, and in the workplace, this is particularly relevant. That's why addiction is a community issue, and paying attention…

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