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- From: jjj@mits.mdata.fi (Joni Jarvenkyla)
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- Subject: Re: LSD and alcoholics posting on usenet
- Message-ID: <1992Dec27.162719.9247@prime.mdata.fi>
- Date: 27 Dec 92 16:27:19 GMT
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- In article <1992Dec27.012019.1@pomona.claremont.edu> cblanc@pomona.claremont.edu (Muffavore) writes:
- > You're forgetting that alcoholism is a disease, whether a mental or
- >physiological addiction...having a good experience isn't going to affect the
- >alcoholic's drinking -- he will still need alcohol to function.
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- Yeah, sure. "Poor alcoholics. Such a horrible disease."
-
- Just read from the newspapers today of a new drug naloxone which
- prevents the brain from forming natural opiates when drinking. Somewhere
- in the article they also quoted the original speaker:"We have found more
- evidence to the claim that alcoholism is a biochemical disease and not
- just lack of willpower". With this in mind we could treat addiction
- whatsoever as a disease. So what? Does it change the fact that a person
- is addicted and unable to control him/herself?
-
- I am deeply wondering what do these "scientists" think a human is but a
- biochemical machine.
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