Alcoholism Recovery & Treatment

Question by In Honor of Moja: What about the Mel Gibson meltdown? Is alcoholism really a disease, or only a character flaw?
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Answer by Aptoslady
It is a disease that highlights your character defects.

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Question by Amber: Do you think alcoholism is a character weakness or a disease?

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Answer by songsforthesadman
I believe its a character weakness.
I know, logically, that once you start drinking it is nearly impossible to stop, but the fact that you start in the first place is a character weakness.

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Question by Leslie: Do you think alcoholism is a disease or a character weakness?

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Answer by Curious Girl
Character weakness

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I work in drug and alcohol counseling services as part of county human services. One of my duties is to assist with aftercare for the county jail. We have a religous based outreach group in our area which does work in the jail as well with ex-inmate. A new client of mine asked if she could continue her counseling (mandated by parole) with one of the leaders of this group (no formal education or licensure, not an actual counseling practice). The next week she came back saying that because she was not able to make one of the bible studies because of child care issues this individual went to my client’s parole officer and employer stating that she had relapsed, when in fact she did not. I did some checking up and this org has some fairly extremist attitudes. Would this be a valid defamation issue, no one is looking at prosecuting but I would like her to have something to hold over this individual’s head incase it happens again.