Quote: from snowcone200 at 1:34 am on Jan. 7, 2009
The opinion of society is often what dictates what currently is fact and what isn't.
You know like the earth is flat deal. By definition maybe, but I wouldn't like to agree it is.
but the earth being flat was never a fact. it was just a belief. but the definition applies to alcoholism. so you'll have to change the definition of disease before alcoholism wouldn't be considered a disease
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Quote: from snowcone200 at 1:11 am on Jan. 7, 2009
On T.V an actor called it a disease
Well there you go, but no, anyone who wants to say otherwise needs there motives questioned.
If addiction was a disease, then I would have several diseases as would most if not all the population on earth.
"Just stop!" "No man, I have a disease!"
*There's a great South Park episode based on this.
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lol there is? hah
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Quote: from snowcone200 at 10:16 am on Jan. 10, 2009
lol there is? hah
"Bloody Mary" episode 914.
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Isn't substance dependency/addiction itself classified as a mental disorder just like depression or anxiety disorder in the DSM-IV*? I haven't checked in awhile, but hospital charts and files that I've looked at behind the staffs' desks while everyone was asleep, primarily out of boredom, seemed to indicate that it is classified as one.
*Actually I just checked a DSM-IV just now and it's classified as a disease under 'chemical dependency disorder.'
Keep in mind though that this is not *necessarily* my opinion; it is just what the DSM-IV says (but it's not like the DSM-IV is some kind of omniscient Bible).
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