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To: delacoert
Most drunks are not insane. They know exactly what they are doing: getting drunk!

What I'm saying is very simple: over drinking is a decision making problem, not a disease. And even if it is a disease it's not helpful to give drinkers that out. If their drinking causes injury or death to others: throw them in jail for a while. The last thing we should do is set them up in a hospital and give them expensive medical treatments which can not work.

234 posted on 07/30/2005 3:22:19 PM PDT by Reeses
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To: Reeses
Most drunks are not insane.

And even if it is a disease it's not helpful to give drinkers that out.

If their drinking causes injury or death to others: throw them in jail...

I can't tell for sure what you're getting at. If you are using the term "drunks" to refer to anyone that has gotten drunk, then you are mostly right.

If you are using the term "drunks" to refer to an alcoholic, then I disagree with some of what you say.

237 posted on 07/30/2005 3:52:14 PM PDT by delacoert (imperat animus corpori, et paretur statim: imperat animus sibi, et resistitur. -AUGUSTINI)
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