Fingarette aims to refute evidence that alcoholism is a disease. Rejecting the terms alcoholic and disease, he points out that many "heavy drinkers" do not experience craving and/or loss of control, can engage in controlled drinking, and have spontaneous recovery. He also notes the variable ...
Myth 5: Alcohol is less dangerous than other drugs. Alcohol is legal but is just as addictive and harmful as other substances. It can lead to physical dependence, mental health problems, and fatal overdoses. Recent surveys indicate that 29.5 million people ages 12 years and older ...
diseasemythresponsibilityself-controltreatmentProponents of the disease concept of alcoholism have argued that its dissemination among the general public will promote humanitarian attitudes toward alcoholics. This claim was subjected to empirical scrutiny. A quota sample of 200 members of the general public...
by using abstainers as reference group, combining alcohol from all drink types, and including protective relationships with ischemic heart disease when assessing overall cardiovascular (CV) risk.#The UK Biobank cohort consists of over 500,000 participants that attended one of 22 assessment centers acros...
These in turn mark the individual as different and lead them to experience status loss and discrimination. By linking people with AUD to counter-stereotypic attributes, the videos were expected to disrupt this stigmatisation process and reduce stigma. The education video used a commonly used myth-...
Myth: All sorts of social problems—marriage problems, a death in the family, job stress—may cause alcoholism. Reality: As with psychological and emotional problems, alcoholics experience all the social pressures everyone else does, but their ability to cope is undermined by the disease and the...
In 1982 the present author wrote for WHO a paper entitled, “The Prevention and Management of Alcohol Problems in the Family Setting: A Review of Work Carried out in English-Speaking Countries.” This was subsequently published in Alcohol and Alcoholism in 1983 (Orford, 1983). The present cha...
But even the most cynical secretly admit that success exists;that achievement counts for a great deal;and that the true myth is that the actions of men and women are useless. To believe otherwise is to take on a point of view that is likely to be deranging. It is, in its implications...
and objective symptoms are readily observable through examination, palpation, percussion, auscultation, and laboratory and instrumental diagnostic methods. Signal symptoms are the precursors of a disease. They include early symptoms, such as chest pains with pneumonia, and late symptoms, such as peritonea...
Damage or disease in these areas can result in varying degrees of memory loss. Here's a good example of how this works: In order for short-term memory to become long-term memory, it must go through a process known as consolidation. During consolidation, short-term memory is repeatedly ...