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Why Is Alcoholism Considered a Disease, but Not Smoking? Are Food Addicts Considered Diseased?
Question by nunuvyobizniz: Why is alcoholism considered a disease, but not smoking? Are food addicts considered diseased?
Why would alcoholism not just be called an addiction like smoking or doing drugs? And if doing drugs is obviously worse and illegal than smoking, then why don’t we just call smoking a crutch? Or why don’t we call all smoking and drug addiction a disease as well? So, would food addicts also be considered diseased? Because it can be just as dangerous. Who made up these rules as to what’s a disease, what’s a crutch, and what’s an addiction?
Best answer:
Answer by Ginny Jin
well a disease is something that is spread or contagious or causes infection. Alcoholism is more of an illness.
Answer by raysny
Alcoholism became a disease only because the AMA voted it to be a disease at the urging of Marty Mann, former PR woman who successfully made Alcoholics Anonymous the favored method of treatment in the US.
http://www.roizen.com/ron/mann.htm
How to Stop Addiction: Emma Veness Diagnosed With Pica Disorder After Unusual Craving for Furniture Polish
How to Stop Addiction: Emma Veness diagnosed with Pica disorder after unusual craving for furniture polish
Seven months pregnant Emma Veness, 26, from Birmingham, is inexplicably drawn to eating polish despite her own fears she could be harming her baby.
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How to Stop Addiction: Newhouse: Bring our military home — now!
For 4 years now, local folk have graced this column space as good neighbors, to provide you readers a sunny start to your day, even when it’s cold and rainy. But in a departure from this normal approach, today’s column is about good neighbors whom I, in large part, haven’t met or interviewed.
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How to Stop Addiction: The War on Bad Parenting
David Katz has a deeply troubling suggestion in the Huffington Post. After reading an editorial by Lindsey Murtagh and David Ludwig, Katz comes to the conclusion that, in cases of extreme childhood obesity, the state should be prepared to take children away from their parents. At least, he thinks we shouldn’t laugh off the idea. Murtagh and Ludwig provide such a convincing argument. Obesity …
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Causes of Addiction: Health Advice by Dr. Weiss: Food Addictions – Naples Daily News
Causes of Addiction: Health Advice by Dr. Weiss: Food Addictions – Naples Daily News
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Health Advice by Dr. Weiss: Food Addictions
Naples Daily News But now, new scientific evidence puts anatomical and physiological reasons behind some self-destructive food behaviors. Objective experiments make a convincing argument that being fat, for some people, is an addiction. Certainly, many people have a … |
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