Why is alcoholism not considered a disease

Why is alcoholism considered a disease?

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Alcoholism is considered a disease because it is genetically contributed. When genetics are involved one drink can be too many for an individual.

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Alcoholism in not a disease, people can and do stop drinking. Narcissistic personality disorder is the part that is not cured. People are narcissistic first and some narcissistic people go on to become alcoholics or drug addicts, but it sta…

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drug addiction and alcoholism are mental health disorders.. if one is already addicted he has to go through de-adicction… if not addicted, then u can prevent it by avoiding the company of addicts, keeping onself away from situations which…

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why is alcoholism considered a disease?

Q: i mean if you really think about it.im not trying to offend anyone.im just curious as to why a disease,and being an alcoholic is the same.serious answers onlyim not saying it isint a disease ok.hello people im just wanting to know why it is considered one.thats all !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

A: But It Doesn’t Act Like a 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.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.”http://www.soberrecovery.com/forums/friends-family-alcoholics/30905-why-alcoholism-called-disease.htmlI People who say it is not a disease,are in the bleachers…NOT on the playing field.

Why is alcoholism considered a disease?

Q: I really don’t see how it can be classified as a disease. It has the criteria to be an official disease, but I see it as an addiction. People who are addicted to alcohol suffer from alcoholism. But how come people who are addicted to cigarettes aren’t given the label of suffering from a disease? Same thing with any other drug. Meth too. I could be addicted to meth alot more than someone addicted to alcohol, and yet I wouldn’t be suffering from a disease. Doesn’t make sense.It seems more like a choice. I’ll read excerpts from books and some say that they don’t have a choice to stop drinking. But I think they do. No one forced my mom to go to bars every night after work and get shit-drunk, and not come home for days at a time. No one took a beer can a shoved it into her mouth forcing her to drink. I know that alcoholism can run in families, but I don’t want to say genetic because I’m not sure whether or not it has been proven. But everyone on my mom’s side are alcoholics, and my great aunt (my mom’s aunt) who participated in the olympics is drinking herself to death.My father is an alcoholic too. He got help once or twice and when we moved out of state he just stopped drinking. But I remember when me and my older sister was little he would hit us hard with the belt if we pissed him off. He wasn’t drunk every time he did it, but I know people who drink tend to be alot more aggressive than people who don’t. But he had the choice to grab a beer for the last time, and he left it alone.I’m 17 now, and I suffer from depression and I take medication for it and anxiety. I constantly pick my skin. Lately I’ve moved to the dry skin on the sides of my fingernails and my middle fingers are really sore because I made them bleed. The cuticles are completely gone too. When my mom started drinking heavily and staying out all night (I was 10) I would pull out my hair and eventually got a bald spot, and when the hair started to grow back I would pluck it back out. Could these have anything to do with my opinion on alcoholism? I really want to understand. I’ve been living with it my whole life and I just want to understand it before I make a wrong decision when I’m older. I don’t want the life my mom has now.

A: It is considered a disease only by folks who get paid to treat diseases and those who have bought into that idea. Since there is no ‘cure’ for true alcoholism then the only way to make money off alcoholics is to convince them and society that it can be treated as an incurable disease and by folks who CHARGE for treatment. It quite possibly is the scam of all centuries. If I were a Chevy mechanic and could convince you and an entire nation that alcoholism is a Chevy and that it always need fixing – I’d never go broke.As you, an obviously bright person can easily see, alcoholism doesn’t seem to be a disease and that might be because it isn’t. Intelligence has a way of seeing clearly like that!It was also NEVER considered a disease by Bill Wilson, the founder of “Alcoholics Anonymous” nor is it ever referred to as a disease anywhere in the book, “Alcoholics Anonymous” and these are the experts when it comes to alcoholism and solving the alcoholic’s alcohol problem. I am an alcoholic. I have recovered from it like one would recover from a self inflicted gunshot – I do not suffer from alcoholism anymore. Alcoholism is as much a disease as is a bullet wound. You’lll die from either but once it heals – it has healed and you cant ever die from THAT wound again. Just don’t shoot yourself again. Peace and Love,Danny S – RLRAReal Live Recovered Alcoholichttp://recoveredalcoholic.blogspot.com

im setting up an argumentative essay on why alcoholism should be consider an disease i don’ t know how 2 start

Q: I trying to find out what should be my 3 major points. Im not traditional college student im 44 years old and this is becoming very frustrating

A: Good luck… you’d be better off arguing that it is NOT a disease. It is (IMHO) an addiction like drugs and cigarrettes and food…It runs in the family – that is one excuse for calling it a disease… but it is more monkey see monkey do and lack of will power…30 year alcoholic 1 years dry and happy about it… no meds, no AA, just motivation… Motivation does not cure disease… People that quit drinking… just that… they quit… you can’t quit a disease. AA is a good thing for many – it helps them quit with support and helps with motivation – it does not CURE anything physical and a disease is physical – even a mental disease has physical causes… alcoholism does not – unless you find proof and prove me wrong… there is no proof that I am aware of and I have studied it while trying to quit myself…As for the other posters’ responses so far, you can NOT call the resulting sickness and DT’s part of the “disease” of alcoholism… they are the after effect – not the original problem of drinking tooo much.Point #1: it is an addiction. Like cigaretts and drugs and food. So far I have never heard anyone say smoking tobacco is a disease.Point #2: It runs in the family. Daddy drinks, son drinks. Or it ‘skips’ a generation – Granpa died an alcoholic, daddy over compensated and did not drink, and the next generation went overboard not learning how to drink proper from daddy (ok, I admit that is a long shot explanation ;)Point #3: People QUIT drinking. Diseases can not be ‘quit’.Point #4: Detox, meds to combat drinking, therapy, AA, liver failure, brain damage ARE ALL causes of over drinking. They ARE NOT the cause of drinking (alcoholism). – smoking causes lung cancer and heart disease – is smoking a disease…. ?? and people also quit smoking… etc etc etc…ps. I sound angry about this so called alcoholic ‘Disease’ because I am angry. I made it through computer systems engineering while being an alcoholic. I paid for my own schooling. I tried AA. There were other alcoholics in AA ONLY because they had to register going – Why??? Because they filed with Massachusetts as ALCOHOLICS and GOT FEE TUITION, FEES, and ROOM and BOARD under the guise of having a DISABILITY – DISEASE – ALCOHOLISM… I call that pure BS… I made it on my own, they could have too… and I didn’t quit drinking till 10 years later… (not sure when/if they did… but they said they were in AA and NOT drinking… but STILL had the “disability”!!!!