Addiction is considered a disease, and you cure a disease. But the scientific substantiation of this idea is highly questionable. And the effectiveness of drug services is not established. The addiction can better dispense with the concept of disease and to promote policies that deal with the problem.
The British author and psychiatrist Theodore Dalrymple in his book Drugs. The myths and lies (2006) that it is nonsense to think that addiction is a disease. Addiction is for him a matter of bad morals.
