Alcohol Poisoning Kills Binge-Drinking Teen
Thursday March 27, 2008
When she got into trouble while partying on Dec. 29, 2007 -- drinking entirely too much, too quickly -- and began to exhibit symptoms of acute alcohol poisoning, her friends did not call for help. That's why California teen Julia Gonzalez died -- no one called 9-1-1.Related Information:
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I didn’t find a way to respond directly to Buddy T’s. “Alcoholism As A Disease” on the About.com: Alcoholism so I hope this is the appropriate venue to direct my questions and comments.
Buddy, I have also been an alcoholic but find your annolgue of the condition and attempt relate it to a disease to fall short.
To use a tone in your head is understandably a “simple mental obsession” example but you try to connect this “obsession” as a coralation with disease process. Like you, I’ve had a song I “couldn’t get out”, but I did, just like you. We say we couldnt’t get it out but we did, it may have been a few hours, on rare occasions more than one day but it did go away.
So your anology has a limiting factor but you use it as though there isn’t one.
Yes alcoholism is a much more complex and impactful condition but like the tune drinking (singing the song) doesn’t make the urge go away it reaffirms just what the compulsion is driving towards.
Using your (and most medical providers) criteria we must call anyone with a cumpulsion or obsession as a disease process. Does this make a bank robber, a car theif, wife beater, or any other obsessive behavior one with a disease?