Posted on 03/29/2017 7:15:49 PM PDT by TigerClaws
You have absolutely no clue as to what you are talking about.
How about the teen age girl who ends up getting addicted because her “boyfriend” just wanted to pimp her out? How about the severely wounded vet who got addicted during all the surgeries and rehab from his injuries?
These are just a few of the foljs I know......there are countless stories that don’t fit your all knowing opinion
Not every disease is a “germ in the air” and to say so is just silly. It makes you seem ignorant and foolish. Asthma is a disease my son was born with. He didn’t catch it. I have an autoimmune disease. I didn’t catch that either nor is it caused by my lifestyle; I’m actually pretty disciplined and have healthy habits.
We live in a fallen world and are all born with a sinful nature. We just have different proclivities regarding sin. For some, the area in which they are weak is pridefulness. That one may be harder to recognize in oneself, but it’s one that God says He hates.
And you know nothing of alcoholism. But it’s always nice to have an opinion even when it’s wrong
Good for you
I there are those who need more than will power. I’ve known folks who did it on will power.....some of the most miserable unhappy and judgemental people I have ever met
“heroin use and epidemics come out of the brain of individual users who make decisions to use the drug.”
Like most all the people who comprise the dregs of society, their undoing is the result of very bad choices during the youth of their lives.
By definition, you can’t be “alcoholic” without alcohol.
You put that in your body because you crave it.
You are responsible for that action.
“Like the ER doc you have a skewed view”
My views on addiction are based on years of experience, through direct, multi-year contact with roughly 1,800+ individuals in real world settings; working directly with the person and their families inside their actual homes and in their neighborhoods.
Where do your opinions deride from?
And you are mostly incorrect.
If it were just about not using or drinking then stopping would be enough. It is not. The fact that you don’t know that says you do not understand it
Tell me oh wise one exactly what do you know about alcoholism or addiction
Then solution starts with putting the blame on the correct people. I am addicted to sugar and I’m 70 years old. I don’t blame the cane growers, or the processors or the stores and restaurants. I don’t want the police to, save me. I blame myself.
Everyone in AA stops it, and relies on God to help keep them from lapsing.
What’s the basis for your position? It sounds ignorant.
You are incorrect....there is a genetic component to it. The fact that it can be pinpointed in the neurotransmitters and DNA of an individual tells us otherwise. Moreover not drinking doesn’t relieve the cravings....and if you have never experienced them you are clueless.
Your comment is rather like telling a type one diabetic that if they don’t eat sugar they won’t be diabetic. You are so far behind the research it’s sad
“Well, unless said person forcibly had her take heroin, the dead woman is ultimately the one responsible.”
I know but the pushers are in an illegal and immoral trade that kills people. I hold them responsible too.
Twenty years of sobriety and work with hundreds one on one and thousands in the rooms
You don’t need Jesus. You need a higher power. If that’s Jesus for you, fine.
And if you ask those in AA they will tell you they rely on a lower greater than themselves....that takes many forms. They will also tell you that it isn’t about drinking...that was but a symptom
The basis for my opinion is twenty years of sobriety, work with other alcoholics and addicts, and training in the area.
So what is a person with constant chronic pain
from damage to a spinal nerve supposed to do?
DNA does not make anyone an alcoholic or drug user. There are markers that show a greater propensity toward rewards from such behavior, but a huge number of people never have issues, despite these markers.
A person who eats too much gets fat. That is also not a disease, yet larger people say they can’t stop it. Fat cells, after dieting, release more hormones to encourage eating to regain weight. Still, this “genetic” behavior does not make eating too much a “disease.”
Alcoholism is simply a matter of self-control, just as eating too much is, too.
Your confusing a drunk with an alcoholic.
You can’t be a drunk without alcohol.
You can choose to quit drinking and do so for the rest of your life, but you’re still going to be an alcoholic,one drink away from becoming a drunk again.
As you said, it still takes alcohol in your body to be an alcoholic.
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