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THE HISTORY OF THE DISEASE CONCEPT OF SUBSTANCE DEPENDENCY
… as addiction, and as a habit. The origins of the disease concept of substance dependence have been disputed. Benjamin Rush (1746-1813) and Thomas Trotter (1760-1832) have been credited as being the founders of the movement to acknowledge substance dependence as a disease. Through efforts of …