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- From: jjj@mits.mdata.fi (Joni Jarvenkyla)
- Subject: Re: LSD and alcoholics posting on usenet
- Organization: Microdata Oy, Helsinki, Finland
- Date: Sat, 2 Jan 1993 20:23:27 GMT
- Message-ID: <1993Jan2.202327.25803@prime.mdata.fi>
- References: <1992Dec27.012019.1@pomona.claremont.edu> <1992Dec27.162719.9247@prime.mdata.fi> <1992Dec29.173322.10464@ux1.cts.eiu.edu>
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- In article <1992Dec29.173322.10464@ux1.cts.eiu.edu> cfthb@ux1.cts.eiu.edu (Howard Black) writes:
- >In article <1992Dec27.162719.9247@prime.mdata.fi> jjj@mits.mdata.fi (Joni Jarvenkyla) writes:
- >>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?
- >
- > No, it doesn't. So what?
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- In the long run this might well mean more state money and care for
- alcoholics and more severe penalties and less care for drug users. I
- don't think it's right. As well we could start favoring cocaine users
- and punishing others.
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- During the last 12 months drug related news have taken more newspaper
- space than never before here in Finland. And now that we know alcoholism
- is a disease the new evil is clearly marked: drugs.
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