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
on 9/30/08 6:20 PM, Chris Howie at cdhowie(a)gmail.com wrote:
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.
I promise, this is my final contribution to this off-topic discussion.
Indeed, I apologize for the poor phrasing that led to this thread
derailing.
-Phil