Loosid Sober Tip of the Day October 30

Sober Tips
#1

A disease that tells us we don’t have a disease.

The diseases of alcoholism and addiction are both diseases that trick us into thinking that we don’t have a disease. Although the jury has been ‘in’ for a very long time, it still tries to pull the wool over our eyes.

Addiction does not occur because of moral weakness, a lack of willpower or an unwillingness to stop.

There has been decades of work investigating the effects of substance use on the brain.

Here are the facts:

  1. In 1956, the American Medical Association (AMA) declared alcoholism an illness
  2. in 1987, the AMA and other medical organizations officially termed addiction a disease.
  3. Alcoholism, as defined by The American society of Addiction Medicine, is “a primary, chronic disease characterized by impaired control over drinking and preoccupation with the drug alcohol.”
  4. The definition also states that alcoholism is often progressive and fatal.

So why do millions of people still think it’s not a disease?

Well, one reason is because of lack of information. We simply have not read the above; what the medical community has concluded through decades of research.

Another reason is because our disease tells us so.

Still another reason for this is because there has been a stigma that has been created by people who are not properly armed with the facts that both alcoholism and addiction are not diseases, and it is these false stigmas that kill tens of millions of people every year.

If you are amongst the many who believe you have a lack of willpower, or have shame or guilt wondering why you cannot control or ‘handle’ your drinking or drug use the way others can, take solace in the fact that the science is in and this could not be further from the truth.

It is a disease and is not your fault.

Here’s the great news. Your disease is 100% treatable provided that you work a spiritual program of recovery.

How did this tip resonate with you? Let us know your thoughts below. There are many people in the Loosid community who need to hear what you have to say.

With Love, Loosid :pray::heart:

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#3

Great information. Thanks

#4

Thanks

#5

When I got the education that I needed,it finally clicked and I knew that I could have a good life almost 6 mths in five days,God is good everyday :heart::heart::heart::heart:

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#6

Amen

#7

Ty

#8

Yeah I think someone said that alcoholism is the only disease that you don’t get any sympathy for from society. Or something,,,

#9

I have excepted I have the disease of Alcoholism. “A drink is to die” period!
I’d like to add to this:
Alcohol has a poison affect on the human body regardless of the disease. Alcohol kills the pancreas. The same organ that produces the enzymes that are needed to break down alcohol. So just like our disease being a double edged sword so does the digestion of alcohol have on our pancreas. It’s a vicious cycle, a deadly one at that!

#10

Thanks for this. Great great info!!

#11

This disease,even when not in active addiction it keeps progressively getting worse,as long as we follow our Faith and Gods will I will never go back to that dark place again​:heart::heart::heart::heart:

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