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.
( Stanton Peele )
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