Recovery | Questions we all should have about the disease concept and Alcoholism
March 15, 2010 - 3:09 pm
Questions we all should have about the disease concept and Alcoholism and how it it sold as fact when it is not fact. No claim for the “disease” concept is based in science. Anyone selling the disease concept is deliberately selling a lie. Research it and you will see I am right. www.baldwinresearch.com
March 15th, 2010 at 4:08 pm
Never thought of it that way – SPOT ON
March 15th, 2010 at 4:44 pm
Their (AA’s) own doubt is in the language they use. It’s always ‘the disease of’ alcoholism, as they put it. How often do you hear someone refer to the disease of cancer, the disease of diabetes? Very rarely, because actual diseases simply don’t need the qualifier ‘disease of’.
March 15th, 2010 at 5:02 pm
It would help if you looked up the information prior to your contempt. There is in fact research backing it. I will not do the looking up for you.
Your argument from ignorance is full of fail.
March 15th, 2010 at 5:33 pm
ok smart ones….their is no research to back anything this video said…so why dont you go ahead and do your own research…and what is the best form?…go out and find yourselves some true “lab rats”…people with addiciton or alcoholism. if you want to live by this video see how well you can have someone lets say “unlearn” their addiction or disease and hopefully its not someone you love and care about for i know living by this ignorance means death…
March 15th, 2010 at 6:00 pm
i forget who said this, but the quote goes something like, “AA’s attachment to the ‘disease’ concept is miles wide & an inch deep.”
while medical & scientfic types battle over the semantics of a ‘disease’/'brain-disease’ model, AA opportunistically uses the language to recruit fresh meat.
then says, “AA never calls alcoholism a disease.”
while the pamplet “Is AA For You?” (2008) clearly states: “We found out that we had these feelings because we had the disease of alcoholism.”
hmmm … .