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5 Responses to “Why is alcoholism or being an alcoholic considered a disease?”

1. kiki Says:
   February 10th, 2010 at 6:12 pm

   Because it’s a mental and physical addiction. It’s not a choice. There’s a chemical reaction in the brain from it.

2. wazup1971 Says:
   February 10th, 2010 at 6:39 pm

   Because nobody will admit it is their fault, like with drugs, it is always anybody else’ s responsibility.

   My wife’s mother was an alcoholic and she was really mean to my wife when she was a teenager. And she blames everybody for being alcoholic, genes, addictive personality, friends, parents, my wife…. except herself.

3. *Cara* Says:
   February 10th, 2010 at 7:26 pm

   Basically because it eventually kills you, just like a disease. Have you ever met an alcoholic? A true alcoholic? For some people they have to either quit drinking or they will die. My grandfather died at the age of 43 from being an alcoholic. His daughter, my aunt, is following in his footsteps. She was just hospitalized last week because she had a seizure. If she doesn’t get help, she’ll die. You see the pattern here? Its a disease and it kills.

4. itmanagerforjesus Says:
   February 10th, 2010 at 8:09 pm

   Some Genestists have linked it to a gene

5. raysny Says:
   February 10th, 2010 at 8:35 pm

   It is considered a disease because the AMA took a vote on it and decided it was a disease. Seriously. In 1956, it became an “illness”. In 1966, it became a “disease”.

   What other diseases needed to be voted on??? Mainly it was voted in so that doctors would get paid by insurance companies for treatment of alcoholism.

   “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.”
   http://www.addictioninfo.org/articles/447/1/Alcoholism-is-not-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.”
   http://www.permanent-solution.com/current_research.cfm

   E.M. Jellinek (a man with phony credentials) teamed up with Marty Mann (AA member and PR woman) teamed up to provide studies that proved alcoholism was a disease:

   “It was Jellinek’s “scientific” study that opened the door for the medical communities’ support. E.M. Jellinek’s study was funded by the efforts of Marty Mann. And, like so many other circumstances involving Jellinek and Marty Mann, the study was bogus if not outright fraudulent.

   “The surveys he based his conclusions on were from a hand picked group of alcoholics. There were 158 questionnaires handed out and 60 of them were suspiciously not included. His conclusion was based on less than 100 hand picked alcoholics chosen by Marty Mann.

   “Mrs. Mann, of course, had a personal agenda to remove the stigma about the homeless and dirty alcoholic or “bowery drunk” in order to gain financial support from the wealthy. By removing the stigma, the problem becomes one of the general population, which would then include the wealthy.

   “The first step was Jellinek publishing his findings in his book “The Stages of Alcoholism.” Later, E.M. Jellinek was asked by Yale University to refute his own findings. He complied. E.M. Jellinek’s Stages of Alcoholism did not stand up to scientific scrutiny.”
   (again) http://www.addictioninfo.org/articles/447/1/Alcoholism-is-not-a-Disease/Page1.html