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There would presumably be a real advantage to a genetic profile that pinpointed those at special risk for alcoholism

If you managed to turn 18 without at least some experimentation, people will assume there’s something wrong with you.

The reality is that if we’d had to rely solely on the healthcare system, a lot of people who are in recovery today would simply never have made it.

A shorter stay is cheaper and less disruptive to your life, but 90 day programs give you more time to master the skills of recovery.

Alcoholism has been around for nine or ten thousand years, but most of what science understands of brain function is less than eighty years old.

An alcoholic can self-regulate consumption for periods given the support from a research project, but when that support ends, a return to previous behavior is likely.

The way addicts and alcoholics themselves talk about their condition (“an emotional disease,” “a parasite the feeds on our emotions”, “an emotional cancer,” “a fear based disease”) is rarely considered in theories of addiction.

Few of us are ever as dedicated to a goal as the addict is to seeking an alternative to abstinence.

While it may have similarities to other disorders, the emotional dysregulation that characterizes addiction is not the same.

Is there a disparity between what you can observe and what the patient reports?