Is addiction a disease or is it a learned behavior?

I wanted to address this semi-controversial topic because recently, we’ve seen a lot of ads for inpatient facilities that offer a holistic approach to recovery and addiction treatment.  However, upon doing some further investigation and research, most of them appear to view addiction as a learned behavior rather than as a disease.  So which one is it?

The Kill the Heroin Epidemic Nationwide™ organization and community supports the disease model of addiction.  There is plenty of evidence demonstrating how it possesses genetic predisposition characteristics similar to other illnesses.  Thus, while addictive tendencies can be exacerbated by how we interpret circumstances and the environment we believe that the root cause of addiction is genetic rather than a learned behavior.

But regardless of how one views addiction, treatment modalities remain very similar if not exactly the same.  Our organization/community rejects a “one-size-fits-all” approach to treatment …