On Tue, Sep 30, 2008 at 5:46 PM, Marc Riddell michaeldavid86@comcast.net wrote:
on 9/30/08 5:33 PM, Chris Howie at cdhowie@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.