Alcoholism Is Not a Disease NASSAU AND SUFFOLK Edition

Most physicians today prefer to view alcoholism as a chemical dependency analogous to other dependencies like heroin, cocaine and nicotine. Indeed, in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of the American Psychiatric Association, alcohol dependence and alcohol abuse are classified under Psychoactive...

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Published inNewsday
Main Author Ronald V. Nazareth, MD. Huntington
Format Newspaper Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Long Island, N.Y Newsday LLC 06.06.1988
EditionCombined editions
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Blume, Sheila
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Summary:Most physicians today prefer to view alcoholism as a chemical dependency analogous to other dependencies like heroin, cocaine and nicotine. Indeed, in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of the American Psychiatric Association, alcohol dependence and alcohol abuse are classified under Psychoactive Substance-Use Disorders, and not under mental or emotional disease. Certainly, long-continued use of alcohol results in mental disease, but to "medicalize" chemical dependency by calling alcohol abuse a disease removes individual responsibility from the alcoholic.