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Addiction is a symptom of illness

By Lucas Skye | January 22, 2018

Addiction is a symptom of disease. The U.S. experienced a 16.3 percent increase in the number of drug overdose deaths from June 2016 to June 2017, according to the Centers of Disease Control. Controversies about drug addiction have polarized the world’s...