***This is an excerpt for a long post involving the biochemical aspects of alcoholism. I tend to agree with this guy quite a bit.***

Alcoholism / Substance Abuse #7502.75
It is natural for people, ignorant of the biological basis of alcoholism, to believe that alcoholism is caused by the very strange compulsive behaviour of the alcoholic (the alcoholic symptoms). They therefore believe that some treatment program involving talk therapy, persuasion, mandated therapy, psychoanalysis, punishment, appeal to morality and decency, belief in God, and spiritual realignment should help him to recover from the mental aberration.

A glance through this discussion forum makes one realize how common this misconception is. So long people continue to believe in these outdated and simplistic myths about personality traits causing alcoholism, the less likely a scientific solution to alcoholism as a disease - a brain disease at that - will be forthcoming.

It is time that alcoholicscounselorsrs, psychiatrists, doctors, and all those engaged in the drug rehabilitation industry, become informed and educated in the scientific explanation of alcoholism and that they employ scientific methods in the treatment of alcoholism.


Jurriaan Plesman
Free Web Site at
http://www.hypoglycemia.asn.au


Bravo!