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Originally Posted by joeysteele
I go with you near all the way Zippy, however I don't know, lostalex is in the States, maybe addictions are seen as diseases there.
Also in the UK many addictions as to drugs and drinking are dealt with medically,even with no serious illness problems to treat the addiction and minimise it and then get them off it.
Of course as you say, the addictions do most often lead to serious health matters and then it is an alcohol or drug related medically recognised disease.
I help out,only an hour a week at an addictions centre and no 2 people are the same, you can have 8 people with the same addiction but will often need to apply totally different plans for each of them.
Getting people to admit they have a problem whether that's drugs, drinking or any eating disorders is the real hardest part.
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The word 'problem' being the key. Not an illness...but a problem, that they need to admit, and they need to accept before they are able to progress in tackling their problem.
The epitomy of the difference between anorexia and many of those who are obsese.
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