Addiction: A Disease or a Moral Failing?
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> Addiction: A Disease or a Moral Failing?
Guest: Kevin McCauley
The Institute for Addiction Study
The question that just won't go away:
Is addiction a disease or a moral failing?
• Have addicts and alcoholics lost the ability to know right from wrong?
• Should they be responsible for their actions?
• Should courts treat them differently when crimes are committed?
• Whose moral standard do we use?
• Should courts treat them differently when crimes are committed?
• Whose moral standard do we use?
Joe Herzanek and Kevin McCauley
discuss these questions, take your calls and more.
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