Originally posted by: CycloWizard
Originally posted by: shadow9d9
hahahaha. Yeah, it is a "disease" that you have to take action to get. Can't get the "disease" of drinking too much if you never choose to drink.
Fat people have the "disease" of wanting to eat too much!
Killers have the "disease" of wanting to kill people!
And you have the "disease" of ignorance, wanting to remain in the dark about well-known facts. How's that working out for you? Alcoholism has been listed as an "illness" by the
American Medical Association for 51 years now.
It's still a disease of weakness, maybe a decay of moral fiber, but it's NOT a true disease anymore than fapping to pron is a disease...if it were, half of ATOT would be applying for "SSI disability...so they could get paid to stay home and "treat" their disease...
"One of the difficulties in recognizing alcoholism as a disease is it just plain doesn't seem like one. It doesn't look, sound, smell and it certainly doesn't act like a disease. To make matters worse, generally it denies it exists and resists treatment.
http://alcoholism.about.com/cs/info2/a/aa022697.htm
Alcoholism has been recognized for many years by professional medical organizations as a primary, chronic, progressive and sometimes fatal disease. The National Council on Alcoholism and Drug Dependence offers a detailed and complete definition of alcoholism, but probably the most simple way to describe it is "a mental obsession that causes a physical compulsion to drink."
BUT:
http://www.addictioninfo.org/a...t-a-Disease/Page1.html
"History and science have shown us that the existence of the disease of alcoholism is pure speculation. Just saying it?s so, doesn?t make it true.
Nevertheless, medical professionals and American culture lovingly embraced the disease concept and quickly applied it to every possible deviant behavior from alcohol abuse to compulsive lecturing.
The disease concept was a panacea for many failing medical institutions adding billions to the industry and leading to a prompt evolution of pop-psychology.
Research has shown that alcoholism is a choice, not a disease, and stripping alcohol abusers of their choice, by applying the disease concept, is a threat to the health of the individual."
"The disease concept strips the substance abuser of responsibility. A disease cannot be cured by force of will, therefore, adding the medical label transfers the responsibility from the abuser to others. Inevitably they become unwilling victims, and inevitably they take on that role.
In retrospect then, the disease concept has effectively increased alcoholism and drug abuse. Furthermore, its only benefit has been vast monetary reward for the professionals? and governmental agencies responsible for providing recovery services. Specifically, it has not offered a solution for those attempting to stop abusive alcohol and drug use. "
Labeling alcoholism as a disease merely allows it to be blamed on something other than the individual who is one. Many addicts try to blame their addictions on everyone/everything EXCEPT their own lack of will/self-restraints.
Are alcohol and many drugs physically addictive? Yes indeed, but you don't get addicted by taking one drink per week, or per month, or for that matter, one drink per day...it comes of repeated, frequent abuse.
You don't "catch" this "disease"...it's not contagious of and by itself.
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