Comments on: What Is Alcoholism Or Alcohol Addiction? http://addictionrecoverybasics.com/what-is-alcoholism-or-alcohol-addiction/ Overcoming Addiction, Growing In Addiction Recovery. Crucial Info On Getting Sober And Maintaining Sobriety. Thu, 05 Apr 2012 08:13:28 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Lori Dell http://addictionrecoverybasics.com/what-is-alcoholism-or-alcohol-addiction/comment-page-1/#comment-345175 Lori Dell Wed, 26 Aug 2009 16:43:39 +0000 http://addictionrecoverybasics.com/?p=444#comment-345175 I personally do not believe that alcoholism should be labeled as a disease. In my mind that gives people an easy way out. i.e. Once a "disease" is given a name then the person can actually blame the problem and not themselves. ( I have a cold) AND that is where the problem is. The abuser has to take their own responsibility, see the damage that is being caused by their actions and their actions alone. I did not catch a a virus!! I decided one day to start drinking in the early afternoon... Then in the morning... and somehow I justified this by being in an abusive marriage! It was only when I decided that I can accomplish anything that I set out to do, AND do a good job at it did I discover that I can also STOP and put down the bottle. Going to the 12 step programs did not help me.... "Hello... My name is Lori and I am an alcoholic" ... The only thing this did was to reaffirm the fact that I could blame someone/something else and not myself. In essence - I picked up the bottle... and then... I put down the bottle. AND the only thing that matters is that ... believe me... If I can do that ... SO CAN YOU!!! And for an extra added bonus... Ready?? YOU will feel better... 24/7... Oh yes you will... Trust me! -- Lori... I personally do not believe that alcoholism should be labeled as a disease. In my mind that gives people an easy way out. i.e. Once a “disease” is given a name then the person can actually blame the problem and not themselves. ( I have a cold) AND that is where the problem is.

The abuser has to take their own responsibility, see the damage that is being caused by their actions and their actions alone.

I did not catch a a virus!! I decided one day to start drinking in the early afternoon… Then in the morning… and somehow I justified this by being in an abusive marriage!

It was only when I decided that I can accomplish anything that I set out to do, AND do a good job at it did I discover that I can also STOP and put down the bottle. Going to the 12 step programs did not help me….
“Hello… My name is Lori and I am an alcoholic” … The only thing this did was to reaffirm the fact that I could blame someone/something else and not myself.

In essence – I picked up the bottle… and then…
I put down the bottle. AND the only thing that matters is that … believe me… If I can do that …
SO CAN YOU!!!

And for an extra added bonus…
Ready??
YOU will feel better… 24/7…
Oh yes you will… Trust me! —
Lori…

]]> By: raysny http://addictionrecoverybasics.com/what-is-alcoholism-or-alcohol-addiction/comment-page-1/#comment-336327 raysny Sat, 13 Jun 2009 17:59:55 +0000 http://addictionrecoverybasics.com/?p=444#comment-336327 I have often seen the claim that the World Health Organization has declared alcoholism to be a disease, but I have yet to find any substantiation. Can you cite a reference or link? Here's what I found on WHO's website: alcoholism, disease concept of, The belief that alcoholism is a condition of primary biological causation and predictable natural history, conforming to accepted definitions of a disease. They lay perspective of Alcoholics Anonymous (1939)-that alcoholism, characterized by the individual’s loss of control over drinking and thus over his or her life, was a "sickness"-was carried into the scholarly literature in the 1950s in the form of the disease concept of alcoholism. The concept was rooted in 19th-century medical and lay conceptions of inebriety as a disease. In 1977, a WHO Group of Investigators* responding to the loose and varying usage of alcoholism, proposed substituting the term alcohol dependence syndrome in psychiatric nosology. By analogy *Edwards G et al. Alcohol-related disabilities. Geneva. World Health Organization, 1977 (WHO Offset Publication. No.32).1 with drug dependence, alcohol dependence has found general acceptance in current nosologies. I have often seen the claim that the World Health Organization has declared alcoholism to be a disease, but I have yet to find any substantiation. Can you cite a reference or link?

Here’s what I found on WHO’s website:

alcoholism, disease concept of, The belief that alcoholism is a condition of primary biological causation and predictable natural history, conforming to accepted definitions of a disease. They lay perspective of Alcoholics Anonymous (1939)-that alcoholism, characterized by the individual’s loss of control over drinking and thus over his or her life, was a “sickness”-was carried into the scholarly literature in the 1950s in the form of the disease concept of alcoholism. The concept was rooted in 19th-century medical and lay conceptions of inebriety as a disease. In 1977, a WHO Group of Investigators* responding to the loose and varying usage of alcoholism, proposed substituting the term alcohol dependence syndrome in psychiatric nosology. By analogy

*Edwards G et al. Alcohol-related disabilities. Geneva. World Health Organization, 1977 (WHO Offset Publication. No.32).1 with drug dependence, alcohol dependence has found general acceptance in current nosologies.

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