Sentences with phrase «alcoholism as a sickness»

Conceptions of alcoholism within the Army range from the moralism of the mission type to an attitude of enlightenment which regards alcoholism as a sickness.

At the laying of the cornerstone for the institution on September 24, 1858, Bellows made a statement upon which those who object to the treatment of alcoholism as a sickness could well ponder today, over one hundred years later:

Not exact matches

In a sense, constructive confrontation of the pleasurable aspect of the sickness of alcoholism can be a growth experience for the minister as a counselor.

Alcoholism begins as a personal sin and ends as a sickness.

Then, in an extremely useful review of «sin, sickness, alcoholism, and drug addictions,» Clinebell mentions several of a «confusing variety of usages,» applied, as he says, now and again to alcoholism and other substance addictions — several of which are not mutually exclusive: 1.

I myself will never adopt an understanding that the power to overcome «disease» or sin or «sickness» or whatever alcoholism is, can be received from, or operated with, «something» or «somebody» or a «power greater than myself» or a «higher power» or a «group» or a light bulb, chair, bulldozer, goddess, doorknob, radiator or any of the other «absurd names for God» (as Rev. Sam Shoemaker, our «cofounder» described them).

(3) We have observed that physiological changes as well as cultural attitudes toward alcoholism (which regard it as a question of willpower rather than a sickness) probably contribute to the perpetuation of the addiction once it is established.

If an individual decides that it is smarter not to drink, he is detaching himself from the «exposed population» so far as the sickness of alcoholism is concerned.