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Originally Posted by OhioBlue
Oh please. You make it sound as though the disease model were universally accepted and agreed upon by everyone. If you had even a single course on substance abuse in your training you should know that's hardly the case.
I personally think it's more complicated than just calling it a disease, or not calling it a disease. My experience has been that our culture's present love affair with finding a genetic link for every possible piece of distress that a human being can experience is definitely a double edged sword, if not an exercise in blatant reductionism.
Did you know that eating disorders are now also being called a disease?
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Thanks for making my point. You just admitted that you wouldn't argue that it is not a disease, but that it is some middle ground. Because you know if you were to straight out argue that alcoholism has no application to the definition I introduced, you'd be laughed straight back to the Analytic Institute.
There are plenty of folks who don't believe in the disease model of the brain. Some of these we call psychologists. The types that argue bad moms cause schizophrenia. They are gradually going the way of the do-do bird.