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  • No. Alcoholism is mostly a craving for sugar. Once you know that it is easier to handle because your diet change helps. Or you can be a philosophic alcoholic forever because you have no control like the others in Alcoholics Anonymous. Bett
  • No, i have known several alcoholics who are no longer that way inclined. Alcohol is just an addiction like other vices. Once a smoker, always a smoker ? No, see what i mean.
  • Yes, I think so. Alcoholism is a disease, and once you have it,...I think you have it for good. If someone that has been sober for 10 years has just a few drinks,...it can start the whole thing over again. Just my opinion,...no offense meant.
  • I don't have a problem with drinking, but I was addicted to heavy drugs. I think sometimes people think that people like me are just weak, but I really feel it's not the case. I have a family history of alcholics and drug addicts which makes me think that somehow it's just in my genetic make up, but then I often ponder if maybe I've just heard about it so fucking much that it happened to me. Either way, with me, my addiction is to me a disease. I can't run away to hide from it. It's always in the back of my mind even though I've been clean for 3 years. I think that it just depends on the person. I will always be a drug addict, but I won't let it define who I am now and who I will be in the future.
  • Yes. It is an inheritable disease, not a weakness of willpower or moral fiber. True alcoholism is an emotional and physical disease. Alcoholics' bodies do not metabolize alcohol like non-alcoholics. According to alcoholics anonymous: http://www.alcoholics-anonymous.org/en_information_aa.cfm?PageID=17&SubPage=63 "The alcoholic is a sick person suffering from a disease for which there is no known cure that is, no cure in the sense that he or she will ever be able to drink moderately, like a nonalcoholic, for any sustained period. Because it is an illness — a physical compulsion combined with a mental obsession to drink — the alcoholic must learn to stay away from alcohol completely in order to lead a normal life."
  • People born with a gene, that makes them an alcoholic, is permanent. Most alcoholics, with the gene, are virtually stuck in life, addicted to alcohol. some can shake the habit, most cannot.
  • What causes problems, Is a problem.
  • Yes, once a cucumber becomes a pickle, it can never go back to being just a cucumber again.
  • No, you're not. Alcohol is a way of seeking satity or a measure of pleasure. True there are genetic predispositions for most (google D2 dopamine receptor gene)but I and many others will not accept the fact that we will always be two drinks away from being 'full-blown' again. Understanding is the key. When one ask's oneself 'why do i drink so much' and begins to attack that, then we will see progress. There is no gene specificly for alcoholism, there are however several for feeling a sense of ease. We wern't all born with these. Attack that. Amino acids, exercise and Omega-3 are a good start. I will say that people who believe that you are always going to be an alcoholic are ignorant. Time for you to learn. I apoligize (sp?) for my passion but I strongly disagree with the general speak :an alcoholic will always be an alcoholic". Alcoholics may always have had an inclination to seek whatever they can find pleasure. You can stop drinking then you overeat, gamble too much, drink lots of coffee. Thing is these examples often preceeded the alcoholism. We are simply people in search of something that many take for granted-pleasure. You can find it in exercise, good friends or one greasy burger but it may not last for long. I thank science often for dispelling these outdated myths (always an alcoholic). LIke with many things in life, knowledge is the key. Learn why you may be an alcoholic don't just accept that and don't EVER let anyone tell you that you'll be nothing more than a booze-hound. Good luck, Don't accept the general consensus. Learn, that's is you're biggest advantage.
  • Ok, this is a big one for me as someone who drank really heavily for a number of years and then quit. The strictest definition of addiction suggests chemical dependency. That is to say, if you drink a fifth a day for three months, your body will become dependent on alcohol simply to feel normal and you will experience withdrawal if you don't drink. So, I think if you simply have gotten "sober" then you CAN say that you do not suffer from alcoholism. However, many people say that alcoholism is a brain condition - probably heredetary - that makes a person inclined to drink. As such, this would not go away if one were to stop drinking - you would still be an "alcoholic." Also, I think I'd agree with the "once an alcoholic, always an alcoholic" camp in that if you obsess over liquor you are probably an alcoholic. What I do not agree with is the black and white distinction. I'd say, once an alcoholic, always prone to alcohol abuse. But stop drinking, and it is not fair to be labeled an "alcoholic" or a "recovering alcoholic." The idea "recovering alcoholic" indeed is self-contradictory: if it is a disease that is always with you, and is an unchanging condition of body, makeup, how can you "recover" from it?
  • AA says it is. Because once you think like an alcoholic, you're capable of doing it again and again. I'm not sure I totally agree.
  • Not really Sometimes i drink alot and then go cold turkey ,its not an addiction like ppl say, only the ppl who make it addiction.
  • Nope - Because there are actually some people that know when the party ends and where the rest of their lives begin.
  • It may be true. I believe, however, that a person who is an alcoholic can choose not to drink alcohol.
  • I use to not think so until I went to a rehab 5 years ago and they teach you that it is true, once an alcoholic even if you stop drinking you're still an alcoholic. (go figure)!
  • Let us leave the AA out of this. I am sure they do great work but they use the bible and therefore their opinions are to be questioned. The definition for alcoholic needs to be clear. Wikipedia has it right: 'Alcoholism is a term with multiple and sometimes conflicting definitions.'. A few above have it right. It is simple; when you are an alcoholic there could be a chance you might get 'cured'. If so, it might be easier to become an alcoholic once more. The statement 'once an alcoholic, always an alcoholic' has no ground.
  • You are an alcoholic always, it can go into relapse. It can be managed like cancer or diabetes but it takes a healthy, healthy mainframe to address what lead someone to want to find pleasure or escape in such a manner. When that is addressed then you may find total remission, but the chemical changes in your body are there, and the body and brain will always prompt your body to do their desire. That is what chemical dependency is. Anyone who thinks they can just quit drinking and not address any other issues is ignorant and setting themselves up to relapse.
  • Not at all. You can give it up like with anything else. People who drink heavy too often normally have a reason for it like depression. Alchohol however may clear it but will cause depression the following day meaning more alchohol needs to be consumed to counteract the affect. Also the more often you consume it the more tolerant you become to alcohol so you will be causing damage to your body without noticing the effects as much. Alchol is difficult to give up for a very heavy drinker as giving it up 'cold turkey' does not just cause irratibility and a range of mental symptoms but can cause some serious physical problems too like grand mall seizures where a heart attack or stroke can occur. It makes you wonder why some people do not just give up as easily as with other things. People should we weened off alchohol gradually and if its serious they should seek help from a doctor. It only takes a couple of months of gradually reducing the consumption to safely change from an every day of the week heavy driker to a non drinker.
  • yes. my second cousin is an alcoholic. she went in rehab trying to overcome it.. but, she checked herself out and headed streight for the bars..
  • i dont think so, people quit alcohol all the time

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