Is Alcoholism A Disease?

 

Hosea 3:1—4:6

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Physician Questions the View that Alcoholism is a Disease

To the Editor of The Star:

Alcoholism, a disease?

If so:

  • It is the only disease contracted by an act of will.
  • It is the only disease that is habit forming.
  • It is the only disease that comes in a bottle.
  • It is the only disease causing hundreds of thousands of family disruptions.
  • It is the only disease promoting crime and brutality.
  • It is the only disease contributing to hundreds of thousands of automobile accidents.
  • It is the only disease playing a major part in over 50% of the more than 50,000 annual highway deaths.
  • It is the only disease which is sold by license.
  • It is the only disease that is bought in grocery stores, drug stores and well-marked retail outlets.
  • It is the only disease that is taxed by the government.
  • It is the only disease that is necessary for medical doctors to fellowship one with another.
  • It is the only disease in which medical support for the disease outweighs any effort to prevent it.
  • It is the only disease advocated by almost all the advertising media.
  • It is the only disease given as a Christmas gift.
  • It is the only disease that has been “legalized” for Sunday by our legislators.
  • It is the only disease our medico-governor has promised to ignore and let the people be plagued seven days a week instead of six.
  • It is the only disease that is checked by government inspectors to make sure the poison is pure.

The Automobile Club of Michigan has reported that since 18-year-olds can buy the disease in their state, drinking drivers in the 18-20 age group increased their involvement in traffic accidents by 119%. They also had a 54% increase in fatal accidents, a 104% increase in injury accidents and a 135% increase in property damage accidents during 1972. If the highest executive in our state either doesn’t smell the problem or doesn’t have the backbone to try to protect Hoosiers from the Number 1 Problem disease on everybody’s polls, and he is a medical graduate, what help and hope is there for our state? —Helen M. Calvin, M. D., South Bend


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Marijuana is illegal in most of the world, while alcohol is legal, despite the fact that alcohol is a far more dangerous drug than marijuana in every way. People consider marijuana to be a dangerous drug, while they think of alcohol as being a fun beverage.

They consider those who sell marijuana to be drug dealers, the scourge of society who should be hunted down and imprisoned, while those who sell alcohol (wine makers, grocery stores) are viewed as respectable citizens.

Logically speaking, it should be the other way around. Alcohol tends to make many people aggressive, leading to a variety of violent crimes, while marijuana does not. Alcohol is a central nervous system depressant, and leads to a serious loss of coordination and motor skills.

At larger doses, alcohol renders one completely unconscious. Drunk drivers cause enormous numbers of automobile accidents and deaths. Marijuana is not a central nervous system depressant, and while one probably shouldn't drive while intoxicated on anything, it simply does not cause anywhere near the loss of motor control that alcohol does, and is only a fraction as dangerous as alcohol in terms of driving. And, a large enough dose of alcohol can and will kill you, while the same is not true of marijuana.

But people are looking at this based on their feelings. Marijuana feels like a drug to them. It's illegal, isn't it? Alcohol feels like a fun beverage. It's legal, and socially acceptable, so it feels ok, so it must be ok. So the same cop who arrests someone for possessing Marijuana, can LEGALLY go home and get plastered on Jim Beam or Jack Daniel's alcohol. All of this is illogical and stupid, and typically human. It is tragic! The American people have proven themselves to be irresponsible when it comes to booze. Our sinful “get down and party” culture promotes boozing and drunkenness.

1st John 3:8, “...For this purpose the Son of God was manifested, that he might destroy the works of the devil.”

“...and whosoever is deceived thereby is not wise.” —Proverb 20:1

 

 

Denise Wagoner didn't die in the above alcohol-related car accident, but probably wishes she had at the time. This is but one horrific tragedy, one of the millions of victims who DIDN'T die but will suffer for the rest of their lives because of beer.

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Scriptures Condemning Drinking Strong Drink...

Judges 13:4, Now therefore beware, I pray thee, and drink not wine nor strong drink, and eat not any unclean thing.

1st Samuel 1:15, And Hannah answered and said, No, my lord, I am a woman of a sorrowful spirit: I have drunk neither wine nor strong drink, but have poured out my soul before the LORD.

Proverb:20:1, Wine is a mocker, strong drink is raging: and whosoever is deceived thereby is not wise.

Proverb 31:4, It is not for kings, O Lemuel, it is not for kings to drink wine; nor for princes strong drink.

Isaiah 5:22, Woe unto them that are mighty to drink wine, and men of strength to mingle strong drink.

Isaiah 24:9, “They shall not drink wine with a song; strong drink shall be bitter to them that drink it.”

Isaiah 28:7, But they also have erred through wine, and through strong drink are out of the way; the priest and the prophet have erred through strong drink, they are swallowed up of wine, they are out of the way through strong drink; they err in vision, they stumble in judgment.


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(pictured above)

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