Is Alcoholism A Disease? Is Addiction A Disease?

I was looking at an Addiction Help site the other day. People were chiming in on whether they thought Alcoholism was a disease. I wrote about this once, because I felt I needed to. Can’t remember where it is, on the site, so I’ll jot this down real quick.

First: The case of Alcoholism, or Drug Addiction being a disease is only relevant if you’re going to profit from the business of disease. If you’re somehow tied in with the Medical Industry you can get money for treating a disease. For Alcoholics and Drug Addicts, it’s a pointless question: It doesn’t matter.

If you drink like, you think, an alcoholic might drink and you want to quit, it doesn’t matter whether somebody say’s it’s a disease or not. Also it’s useful to look at where and how we start saying things and the words we use to say them.

What has taken place is we’ve got all these diseases listed and entered into the modern day language for profit. If you make money from disease – it’s good to have a lot of diseases. Notice the wording in the first and second definitions from the American Heritage Dictionary ( below ). With this criteria almost everything is a disease.

Notice also, what was most likely the original meaning of the word (dis-ease) is listed as obsolete. The question I always have is – why are we asking the question at all?

If you ever bother to read comments on this question (is alcoholism a disease) you’ll notice a common trend. It goes something like this:

• Yes, it’s a disease, taken from the definitions below. This is not debatable – Medically accepted. Hey, the people that decide what is officially a disease have decided and it’s a done deal. That’s the current monetary party line position.
• Then comes, it’s not a disease, it’s a lack of character. A mental weakness. Alcoholics and addicts are just pussies.
• Followed by, addiction is the result of a – sin, evil, spiritual malady, god thing. Remedied by accepting a certain religious treatment. These people will write a prescription for your condition – in the comments section.

The problem with all these opinions, and that’s all they are, is they don’t help alcoholics and addicts. I have a solution to the whole labeling dilemma: Stop debating. If you don’t have a problem with drugs and alcohol stop writing about it. You can only know about it by experiencing it first hand.

Alcoholics Anonymous got a lot of stuff right. Mainly because Bill Wilson and Dr’ Bob were smart guys and they had some good help. One of the really good things they wrote down in the Big Book is that alcoholism can be likened to an allergy. Is it an allergy? Doesn’t matter. If we treat it like an allergy we’re on the right track. If you have an allergy you accept that you either – stay away from what you’re allergic to – or go through the allergic reaction.

Are there good reasons for categorizing alcoholism as an allergy? Yes, it behaves like an allergy. How about drug addiction? Is addiction an allergy? I don’t know. I do know that people react differently when taking drugs. I thought about all this and came up with – treat it all as an allergy. I dealt with an addiction to heroin like I was allergic to heroin.

Another thing to keep in mind – An addiction can be dealt with in a couple of weeks. After that we don’t deal with addiction, we deal with our behavior. Behavior is not an addiction related problem. We may have developed some behaviors because of the drugs we took but we can’t solve them by staying off drugs.

This why the twelve steps were written out. They are an introduction to a set of principles. This twelve step process is the program of alcoholics anonymous. The twelve steps deal with behavior. Only in step one is alcohol even mentioned.

Disease: Definitions

American Heritage Dictionary

1. noun A pathological condition of a part, organ, or system of an organism resulting from various causes, such as infection, genetic defect, or environmental stress, and characterized by an identifiable group of signs or symptoms.
2. noun A condition or tendency, as of society, regarded as abnormal and harmful.
3. noun Obsolete Lack of ease; trouble.

Century Dictionary

1. noun Lack or absence of ease; uneasiness; pain; distress; trouble; discomfort.
2. noun In pathology: In general, a morbid, painful or otherwise distressing physical condition, acute or chronic, which may result either in death or in a more or loss complete return to health; deviation from the healthy or normal condition of any of the functions or tissues of the body.
3. noun Specifically— An individual case of such a morbid condition; the complex series of pathological conditions causally related to one another exhibited by one person during one period of illness; an attack of sickness.

GNU Webster’s 1913

1. verb-transitive To deprive of ease; to disquiet; to trouble; to distress.
2. verb-transitive To derange the vital functions of; to afflict with disease or sickness; to disorder; — used almost exclusively in the participle diseased.
3. noun Lack of ease; uneasiness; trouble; vexation; disquiet.

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Insecurity: The frequency

A long time ago I read something that over the course of the years I’ve found to be true. What I read was that anger was a manifestation of fear. Another thing I read that likewise proved out was that there are only to base emotions – Love and Fear.

What we’ve talked about recently is Life being a Frequency. Every frequency will manifest different physical states: Solids, liquids, Gases and Plasmas. Love also has a frequency, as does fear. They too manifest different states: anxiety, envy, affection, kindness and so on.

What happened in my life as the result of this “Life as a Frequency” knowledge was – It ruined anger for me. I couldn’t get mad without this little voice saying, “What are you afraid of”. That’s no fun. We all know people who have what they call bad tempers. They tell you about their bad tempers with a sort of pride. You can hardly hold the same romanticism knowing you’re really just scared.

Anger is completely unnecessary. You’ve probably heard professionals say that we can, and should, channel our anger into positive action. Seems kind of silly once we’re in possession of the facts.

Insecurity

We’ve also talked about what we might call human instinct. We came up with security as one of these instincts. If you want your life to be simplified overnight all you have to do is stop looking at manifestation as the problem. Manifestation cannot be dealt with effectively as long as we remain unaware of the underlying emotional frequency.

If you think of dealing with the hundreds of possible manifested states it seems really complicated. In fact any attempt to deal with all of these manifestations is overwhelmingly complicated. That’s why there are so many different departments, and college degrees, created to deal with them.

They’re all unnecessary. You can learn all there is to know about life, that’s known, on your own – without spending a bunch of money. You can deal with any personal manifestation effectively, on your own, once you understand the way things work.

What I want to do with this article is allow people to look around and see the fear, manifesting as insecurity, at all levels of society. When we understand this basic concept: That two emotions, or frequencies, are producing all emotional states, we can analyse the underlying condition in everyone and everything we observe. We’ll know – Where they’re coming from.

What we’ll see is rampant insecurity. What is war, but fear? What is competition, but fear? What is jealousy, hate, bigotry, greed, avarice and so on – but fear?

Trickle Down Insecurity

What we have, at least in the US, is –  fear as government. The people who would rule the world: Corporate and banking interests, are driven by their deep insecurities (fear). What we live under today are their “Policies of Insecurity”.

These policies influence the insecure people living in the society they control. Control, is a manifestation of fear. Submission to that control, is a manifestation of fear. Fear makes the dysfunctional wheel go round.

As soon as we start to look at people and judge them accurately we won’t be susceptible to manipulation. We’ll see policies like, The War on Drugs and The War on Cancer, for what they are – policies of insecurity. Remember, War is a fear based activity. So any use of the word war, connected with policy, is playing on the fears of a society. Fear based people use fear as the motivator for public compliance – always.

Okay, see where you get with this idea and since we’re looking at frequency – here is a good place to experiment with changing our own frequencies. Take a look at – Solfeggio Arpeggio 396, 417, 528, 639, 741, 852, 963

Addiction has a lot of side affects. After we end the addiction we find our minds and bodies need continued treatment. If we’re going to feel good we’ll need to find out what we need and get busy getting it.

Lots of us have liver problems to one degree or another. Also, due to our addiction, we’re all suffering from vitamin and mineral depletion. Even people with no addictions, who live and eat in todays society, suffer poor health from nutrient deficiency.

Another common result of addiction and the addicted lifestyle, and the resulting malnutrition, is organ damage. The digestive system should be an obvious place to start on the road to recovery. I used, and use to this day, medicinal plants, herbal remedies, herbs, spices and other Ayurveda remedies.

What we could really benefit from would be a place where we could type in our condition (as we see it) and get some herbal remedies.

If you go to this site: www.herbsnspicesinfo.com, then click on this page: herbal remedies, you’ll see what I’m talking about.

This is what I did when I got off drugs. After the initial detox I once again found myself – absolutely miserable. Mainly I felt it in my body but my brain wasn’t doing me any favors either. So I went on a search for a cure.

I knew that I couldn’t stay off drugs and feel like that. I also knew that if I kept using drugs I’d keep getting worse – feeling worse. So I started getting information and applying what I found.

The reason I say, start with the stomach, is it does know good to take something (by mouth) for the heart if it’s not processed properly in the stomach. You can get started on this self treatment by following the links provided below:

“Complete Probiotics”

“Herbal Supplements”

Turmeric: What it’s good for…

Chlorella: Super Food

Purple Defense

Whole Food Multi-Vitamin

lpi.oregonstate.edu-vitamins/vitaminC
Vitamin C Information Linus Pauling Institute Oregon State University

www.drinkyourvitamins.com/articles
B12 by Richard A. Kunin, M.D. 2000

www4.dr-rath-foundation.org/researcharchive
list of Clinical Studies that document the importance of micronutrients and nutrition in maintaining optimum health.

www.aidstruth.org/Mortality-with-antioxidants
Full pdf of JAMA article, Mortality with antioxidants