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Book: Diseasing of America: How We Allowed Recovery Zealots and the Treatment Industry to Convince Us We Are Out of Control
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  1. Stanton Peele _ Diseasing of America: How We

    Alcoholism as a disease can strike any individual-it is an "equal-opportunity destroyer"-and respects no social, religious, ethnic or sexual bounds. Treatment based on AA principles is the only effective treatment for alcoholism-in the words of one proponent, a modern medical "miracle"-without which no one can hope to arrest a drinking problem. Those who reject the AA approach for their drinking problems, or observers who contradict any of the contentions about alcoholism listed here, are practicing a special denial that means death for alcoholics.
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  2. Stanton Peele _ Diseasing of America: How We

    The core beliefs that the alcoholism movement has successfully promulgated are: Alcoholics don't drink too much because they intend to, but only because they can't control their drinking. Alcoholics inherit their alcoholism and thus are born as alcoholics. Alcoholism always grows worse without treatment, so that alcoholics can never cut back or quit drinking on their own.
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  3. Stanton Peele _ Diseasing of America: How We

    Benjamin Rush, the eighteenth-century founder of the disease concept of alcoholism, also thought that lying, murder, and political dissent were diseases.
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  4. Stanton Peele _ Diseasing of America: How We

    Physicians conduct an initial examination and detoxify the alcoholic in the hospital, then turn the patient over to paraprofessional counselors who are themselves recovering alcoholics. As
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  5. Stanton Peele _ Diseasing of America: How We

    Instead of encouraging those concerned to see the drinking in the context of the person's way of life, and thus to discern what role or roles it may play for that person in coping
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  6. Stanton Peele _ Diseasing of America: How We

    coping with life, the logic of the disease concept does the contrary. It leads all concerned, including the drinker, to deny, to ignore, to discount what meaning that way of life may have. Seen as an involuntary symptom of a disease, the drinking is isolated from the rest of life, and viewed as the meaningless but destructive effect of a noxious condition, a "disease.
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  7. Stanton Peele _ Diseasing of America: How We

    Americans that alcoholism is a disease and the alcoholic a sick person who needs help and treatment. The NCA
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