At Renaissance Ranch Arizona, we prefer to approach addiction through the lens of the disease model, which states that addiction is a disease. By acknowledging the disease status of addiction, we can finally see the current sweep of addiction in certain regions of the world as an epidemic and public health issue. There are a multitude of reasons why the disease model is much more desirable than other methods that have been tried in the past, and why it continues to be the best option that we have today...