Can Medicine Cure Addiction

The power of incentives and addicts as choosing begins, here they talked about a court case where a guy was being trailed for public intoxication. They took the case to county court and his lawyer argued that he suffered from a disease. The morning he had to be in court he took one drink of alcohol and stopped because he had to appear in court. This was interesting to the judge because they guy could have continued to drink but he did not because he was due in court. But, the judge still allowed his conviction to stand so they took the case higher where the judge said that he did not suffer from a disease but the inability to resist drinking and getting drunk in public. They said that people like this guy do not consider the consequences of their actions they just do what feels right to them at them time regardless of what could happen. They went on to talk about PET and fMRI scans that could show us the effects that alcohol has on the brain and the way that the brain craves alcohol. This also show that addicts do not really have any self-control. They also …show more content…
They said that the NIDA has given them a little glimpse of hope that there is a drug out there that can help. They also said that they believe that there is a chance that addiction could be a brain problem and that there could be a way of solving it. There have been some causes where medicine has help patients to quit with the help of their friends and family. They then mentioned cocaine and they said that despite many years of work there is still no medical help for people addicted to cocaine. They also mentioned that the medication is not something that was created by the modern people but by people decades ago. I think that medication could be a good way to help addicts to quit. As long as they do not get addicted to whatever medicine it is they are