#I dont tbink the disease model is inherently true either but that’s another thing

[macbethz]

I think something happened when addiction was reclassified in the public consciousness as a disease in combination with serophobia/ableism that is not necessarily better than how addiction was understood before, where rather than being viewed as a bad person the addict isn’t even viewed as a person at all but some kind of infected thing, a parasitic untouchable.