[hoosiermama]

She will be an excellent spokesperson. Since the 1950s the medical profession has identified alcoholism as a medical condition. The shame is that society still treats it as human weakness and legal problem. IMO if each time a person was drunk they took them to a medical facility with counseling instead of the county jail, we would take many steps forward very quickly.

[onyx]

I don't think she wanted to be a spox, but she just might have a new venue opening for her now. She could likely help a lot of women suffering silently.

[jmacusa]

AA is a program based on attraction, not promotion.

[Finny]

Since the 1950s the medical profession has identified alcoholism as a medical condition. The shame is that society still treats it as human weakness and legal problem. IMO if each time a person was drunk they took them to a medical facility with counseling instead of the county jail, we would take many steps forward very quickly.

With all due respect, that's liberal-mindset nanny-state horsecrap. It most certainly IS a human "weakness" in that it is entirely, 100 pecent behavioral within the context of an allergy. If you were one of the small minority of humans who broke out in a rash every time you ate strawberries, what would you do? YOU'D STOP EATING STRAWBERRIES.

I'm allergic to alcohol. I'm one of the small minority of humans who break out in arrests when I drink. I have woken up every place from a laundromat dryer to jail, with no idea how I got there, because I am alergic to booze. So guess what I finally did? I STOPPED DRINKING IT. That was about 23 years ago.

And you'll never guess what happened! All of the symptoms of this so-called "disease" disappeared! That's right! Imagine that!

It was quite simple. It sure as heck wasn't easy, but it was very, very simple. It was for me, and it is for every alcoholic alive. Not easy, but SIMPLE.

Listen, if alcoholism is a "disease," it's a self-inflicted and self-cured "disease." I can imagine how someone with a real disease, like MS or polio, would give his or her eye teeth to have the ability to get rid of all of that disease's symptoms SIMPLY by making a very cut-and-dried, straightforward behavioral change.

No counselor, no support group, no medical facility, no parent or loving husband or wife or suffering child can make an alcoholic stop drinking. There is only ONE PERSON who can do that -- the alcoholic.