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   Wouter Valentijn  wrote:   
   > Madlove schreef op 20-2-2015 om 04:14:   
   >> On 02/19/2015 09:41 PM, Adam wrote:   
   >>> Madlove  wrote:   
   >>>> On 02/19/2015 03:22 AM, Vidcapper wrote:   
   >>>>> On 18/02/2015 21:30, David wrote:   
   >>>>   
   >>>>>> Brendon's rep tells TMZ, "Nicholas is, unfortunately, battling a   
   >>>>>> disease   
   >>>>>> that many of us don't understand.   
   >>>>   
   >>>>> Very true - alcoholism is *not* a disease, it is simply a lack of   
   >>>>> self-control!   
   >>>>   
   >>>> Calling it a "disease" helps to take responsibility off the addict. If   
   >>>> alcoholism is a disease then why aren't heroin, tobacco, and cocaine   
   >>>> addictions also "diseases".   
   >>>>   
   >>>> These days what isn't a "disease" that needs *expensive* treatment?   
   >>>>   
   >>>> 1. shopping "addiction"   
   >>>> 2. sex "addiction"   
   >>>> 3. TV "addiction"   
   >>>> 4. porn "addiction"   
   >>>> 5. internet "addiction"   
   >>   
   >>> I wasn't aware that you two were medical professionals.   
   >   
   > I was wondering that too. :-)   
   >   
   >>   
   >> ---   
   >>   
   >> Alcoholism: A disease of speculation   
   >>   
   >> "In 1976, the writer Ivan Illich warned in the book, Limits to Medicine,   
   >> that 'the medical establishment has become a major threat to health'. At   
   >> the time, he was dismissed as a maverick, but a quarter of a century   
   >> later, even the medical establishment is prepared to admit that he may   
   >> well be right.   
   >> (Anthony Browne, April 14, 2002, the Observer)"   
   >>   
   >> History and science have shown us that the existence of the disease of   
   >> alcoholism is pure speculation. Just saying alcoholism is a disease,   
   >> doesn't make it true.   
   >>   
   >> Nevertheless, medical professionals and American culture   
   >> enthusiastically embraced the disease concept and quickly applied it to   
   >> every possible behavior from alcohol abuse to compulsive lecturing and   
   >> nail biting.   
   >>   
   >> The disease concept was a panacea for many failing medical institutions   
   >> and pharmaceutical companies, adding billions of dollars 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.   
   >>   
   >> - See more at:   
   >> http://www.baldwinresearch.com/alcoholism.cfm#sthash.KvUmHN7y.dpuf   
   >   
   > There is a biological component.   
   >   
   > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Addiction   
   >   
   > Saying it 'is a choice' is extremely simplistic thinking.   
      
      
   The AMA and a huge body of scientific research would tend to agree with   
   you.   
      
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