Posted by SLS on November 2, 2005, at 7:47:49
In reply to Re: Non-12 Step, posted by CleverGuy on November 1, 2005, at 21:18:17
> Disease and Real disease..... I didn't mean to make that arbitrary, if it was at all. The comment stems from the aforementioned website, rational.org, and their contention that addiction is not a disease at all. My point was to show the absurdity of 12 stepper's assertion that addiction is a disease just as CF: out of one's hands, an affliction, completely uncontrollable.
Maybe the truth is somewhere in between.
I haven't immersed myself in the subject - I probably won't. But I am around MICA people and their program three days a week. Some of them don't really qualify as mentally ill, though. Following a few of them throughout the years has me convinced that there is something outside of their control that contributes to their addictive behaviors. I don't think they can change their behaviors without intervening with psychosocial therapies and possibly with medications that reduce a biological drive towards intoxication.
- Scott
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