Alcoholism Is Not a Disease
Loading...
Uploaded by pjbergin on Aug 6, 2007
An interview with Dr. Stanton Peele. Produced and directed by Patrick and Andrea Bergin. Copyright First Vision Productions 2003.
- 175 likes, 98 dislikes
-
Link to this comment:
Top Comments
Video Responses
All Comments (2,120)
-
Disease allergy genetic aberration call it whatever you want the fact is these people have a genetic component that prevents them from being a normal drinker and suffer from withdrawals when they quit
-
@rcp1936 No. I feel substance abuse is a behavior. I feel it has a genetic component (Google "Dr. Kenneth Blum"), but it's a genetic condition. It's no more a "disease" than my having blue eyes is a disease. And it *can* be cured through cognitive techniques and behavior modification. Which treatment regimen has the highest documented level of success? Aversion therapy, which is purely a behavioral modification treatment. Really, even AA doesn't buy the "medical disease" concept.
-
@Plainsfyre That's not what the NIAAA found. Their 2001-2 survey (NESARC) of over 43,000 Americans found that 35.9% of those who met the DSM criteria for "alcohol dependence" (and that's the criteria that doctors and judges use to force you into AA attendance) for a least the previous 12 months were now in "full recovery." Also, 75% of those in recovery did it without ANY treatment or support group attendance. The NIAAA's earlier 1992 survey (also of > 43,000) found the same.
-
So you agree with me
There are diseases that require NOT putting something in the body to prevent symptoms just like alcoholics not drinking
Neither are cured of the allergy ( disease )
-
@rcp1936 You don't "cure" an allergy by staying away from the substance you're allergic to. The allergy will always be there, ready to rear its ugly head, *unless* you take a medically invasive approach via medicines or surgery (yes, some allergies can be fixed via surgery). However, the NIAAA found that a certain percentage of alcoholics can affect a change on their own, then go back to moderate use. Bing Crosby is one famous example. His alcoholism was apparently "cured."
-
@BlatzBeer The onlyu disease known to medical science
Oh you did an extensive study
Hey Genius ever here of FOOD ALLERGIES
Some people are so allergic to peanuts they can DIE from eating them
The prvention is by not adding something to the body
NOT EATING PEANUTS
-
I agree with ndrthrdr1 calling alcoholism a disease is a cop out. AA and other spiritual cults depend on alcoholism being a disease. moderation is the key. as well as realizing you make your own decisions. labeling something a disease when it is not is emotionally immature.
-
'Disease' is a label you can put on anything. Alcoholism is a disease if you want to. I don't want to. I, and so many others, just need to snap out of it, find a new meaning to life.
-
I have always heard this type of statistic, but have you any idea where the stats come from ?
-
Interesting, I am sober over 3 years. It was AA who told me it was a disease. but I have never been convinced of that myself.
- 2:17Alcoholic Mother Goes to Rehabby ABCNews3,313 views
Featured Video
- 4:59Afraid to Drink, Afraid not to Drink - An Alcoh...by TurningPointofTampa10,341 views
- 1:05Liza Minnelli on Elizabeth Taylorby willnotbeignored110,668 views
- 7:44Alcohol and your Brainby TuneInNotOut249,479 views
- 8:06intervention jessie PART 1/3by GumDependence55,676 views
- 3:22Resisting 12 Step Coercionby pjbergin12,272 views
- 11:29James Frey Interview #1by pjbergin102,582 views
- 2:48A Better Approach to Drugs and Alcoholby pjbergin11,674 views
- 9:50Why AA doesn't work for over 97% of people who ...by the101program100,340 views
- 5:10Ten Signs of Alcoholismby 90dayrecovery45,568 views
- 2:53"The 12 Steps of AA" by Father Joseph C. Martinby fatherjoemartin41,830 views
- 2:06Liza Minnelli talks about alcoholismby BeatleBabe110,904 views
- 3:247. Stress & Addictionby kevintmccauley19656,702 views
- 1:00How smoking and drinking causes damage to the b...by dizzo95114,109 views
- 8:28Mom Left Job and Fell Into Alcoholismby ABCNews8,972 views
- 1:08Response to alcoholism is not a diseaseby AddictionBlog4,188 views
- 9:523 weeks sober,alcoholismby SoberinTampa11,660 views
- 6:26Dr. Stanton Peele on Addictionby stantonpeele5,624 views
- 2:38What Is Addiction?by pjbergin1,789 views
- 1:53Anthony Hopkins on battling the bottleby JerseySurvivor34,320 views
Drinking is a behavior pattern, not a disease. Alcohol is used as a coping mechanism. SMARTRecovery worked for me when a long, miserable year in the AA cult didn't.
No supernatural "spiritual" nonsense.
None of AA's faith healing nonsense.
No sponsors, who aren't qualified to be psychological counselors.
No invisible, magical superfriends.
No permanent dependence on a group of screwed up people.
No learned helplessness (powerlessness).
A far higher success rate.
AA sucks.
ndrthrdr1 3 months ago 13
@TheScraps666 That was only after intensive lobbying by those who stood to profit if it were declared a disease.
How many diseases have been declared so after such lobbying? None that I know of. It's a scam.
Is addiction to cigarettes a disease?
How about nail biting?
ndrthrdr1 3 months ago 6