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Mercnbeth -> RE: intoxication fetish (7/14/2005 11:15:22 AM)
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dangerously misguided crap
lovingmaster45 didn't request nor needs anyone to defend him. But aside from the anecdotal nature of his post I feel he raises valid point and I agree with him. Alcoholism became a "disease" when society deemed that all human weakness and lack of self discipline warranted disease status. Two factors play into this, profits and marketing.
It's an easy sale to tell someone that there weakness isn't their fault. The disease label provides a rationalization. Once you have a disease you need to "cure" it. How do you cure a disease? With treatment and or drugs. Are these provided free? (That was a rhetorical question.) Psychiatrists, psychologist, treatment centers for alcoholism, and the almost daily introduction of new beta blocker drugs couldn't exist on a society where people are referred to as lazy drunks or drug addicts. But as an alcoholic you can be "treated".
Obesity is anther example of a created disease. Walk down the diet aisle of any drug store to witness the marketing of the "cures". ALL have one thing in common in the fine print; "Use this product with a sensible diet and exercise." "WOW - you mean I can lose weight if I take this pill, eat sensibly, and do some exercise?!!?" None of the instructions say - "take this pill with a bag of potato chips."
Similar "disease de juer's"; hyper-activity and ADD (Now being served in child & ADULT sizes). Once pills are created, pretty soon poverty may reach disease status.
Before citing clinical psychological, or genetic studies offering scientific "proof" of a genetic or psychological cause consider this. If the proof is so definitive why isn't every child of a alcoholic an alcoholic? Why isn't everyone with a specific gene or physiological abnormal brain synapse ALWAYS obese? If anyone has ever read the studies they all provide themselves with the wiggle room by this statement; "subjects have a PREDILECTION for....(fill in the disease)." In most other scientific worlds any result outside the theory disproves the theory. However in these cases we accept the opposite, any excuse justifies the disease status and therefor qualifies it for not only treatment, but sympathetic societal pity.
Bob, with all due respect, I think much of the disease/cure circle of life is a much bigger load of crap. People are drunks, fat, misbehaved, and don't pay attention because they don't have discipline in their lives; self or care giver (in the case of children) provided.
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