There were two books that really had a significant impact on me on the issue of drugs: One was Andrew Weil’s book, The Natural Mind. The
Americans that alcoholism is a disease and the alcoholic a sick person who needs help and treatment. The NCA
Coping with life, the logic of the disease concept does the contrary. It leads all concerned, including the drinker, to deny, to ignore, to discount what meaning that way of life may have. Seen as an...
Alcoholism as a disease can strike any individual—it is an equal-opportunity destroyer—and respects no social, religious, ethnic or sexual bounds. Treatment based on AA principles is the only effectiv...
Instead of encouraging those concerned to see the drinking in the context of the person’s way of life, and thus to discern what role or roles it may play for that person in coping
Disease.’ —Lance Dodes, MD, Assistant Clinical Professor of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School (retired); author of Breaking Addiction and The Heart of Addiction Stanton Peele has helped us understand...
Benjamin Rush, the eighteenth-century founder of the disease concept of alcoholism, also thought that lying, murder, and political dissent were diseases.
Physicians conduct an initial examination and detoxify the alcoholic in the hospital, then turn the patient over to paraprofessional counselors who are themselves recovering alcoholics. As
The core beliefs that the alcoholism movement has successfully promulgated are: Alcoholics don’t drink too much because they intend to, but only because they can’t control their drinking. Alcoholics i...