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To: decimon

So this shows that alcoholism is based almost strictly in excessive stress and one’s attempt to self-medicate that.

This flies in the face of so many who say they drink for fun or habit. Really, they are inwardly quite stressed over something. It may not even be that they are trying to “forget” the issue, but just calming their nerves.

Unfortunately, alcohol never fixes a problem.


3 posted on 01/25/2010 2:25:30 PM PST by ConservativeMind (Hypocrisy: "Animal rightists" who eat meat & pen up pets while accusing hog farmers of cruelty.)
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To: ConservativeMind
Unfortunately, alcohol never fixes a problem.

Thankfully, booze never made the world go away for me.

Maybe this research will help determine who is alcoholic. I've read that who takes a drink every day after work is alcoholic and that seems ridiculous to me.

4 posted on 01/25/2010 2:30:47 PM PST by decimon
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To: ConservativeMind

This flies in the face of so many who say they drink for fun or habit. Really, they are inwardly quite stressed over something.

^^^
What? The research focuses on people who are addicted to alcohol, which certainly does not include the vast majority of drinkers, who do, indeed, drink for fun.


10 posted on 01/25/2010 5:56:27 PM PST by Bigg Red (Palin/Hunter 2012 -- Bolton their Secretary of State)
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