Does Calling Heroin Addiction a Brain Disease Help Avoid Tragedies Like Philip Seymour Hoffman's Death?

Does Calling Heroin Addiction A Brain Disease Help Avoid Tragedies Like Philip Seymour Hoffman's Death?
In a recent Time essay, David Sheff says Philip Seymour Hoffman was not responsible for the decisions that led to his death because he suffered from "a brain disease that's often progressive"—i.e., drug addiction: It wasn't Hoffman's fault that he relapsed. It was the fault of a disease that often includes relapse as a symptom and the fault of the ineffective treatment he received. You might …
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Meth Clinic Stories – yes, our class was across the street from a methadone clinic…. Weve seen worse out there, but this is all I have recorded. Mariah did the narrating.