Would Drug Addiction Be Considered a Medical or Social Issue?

Question by [email protected]: Would drug addiction be considered a medical or social issue?
I know that many consider addiction to be a disease.It has all of the symptoms of a life threatening problem.I was thinking of this today while reading in an online drug addiction forum,
http://navoices.com/
But was wondering what the general idea of non NA members would be.
So what do you think?

Best answer:

Answer by panda
there are addicts in all class of people. So I would say its a medical issue.

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… Police Department will participate a prescription drug drop box program. A press release from the department said that, according to the Ohio Department of Health, Southern Ohio is the “epicenter” of the prescription drug abuse problem in the state.
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