On Tue, Sep 30, 2008 at 5:46 PM, Marc Riddell
<michaeldavid86(a)comcast.net> wrote:
on 9/30/08 5:33 PM, Chris Howie at cdhowie(a)gmail.com
wrote:
Not to mention that alcoholism is an addiction
and not a disease.
Chris,
That is a false and a dangerous belief. Addiction describes the behavior
associated with the disease. In short: the emotions trigger the first drink,
and the brain takes it from there.
Marc
As a theory I have no problem with the statement that alcoholism is a
disease, but I have seen little evidence to confirm it. Our own
article uses language more like "suggests that" and "thinks."
Obviously I don't intend to hijack this thread, but either I haven't
done much research on this subject or the research I have done hasn't
produced much useful data. So Occam's Razor seems pretty appropriate.
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Chris Howie
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