Sentences with phrase «said about alcoholism»

In spite of all that has been written and said about alcoholism being a compulsive illness and an addiction, many Americans still think of it in moralistic, willpower terms.

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One of the Yale ministers stated this point of view very well when he said: «Alcoholism is a sin only in the sense that it is a sin attributed to society, especially a Christian society — that we have been unable to bring about a world free from the tensions and conflicts of the present day.
Yeah, yeah, say what you want about Rush, but it's the only talk radio station around here, and I refuse to listen to any modern music — all they ever talk about is promiscuity and alcoholism...
I'm not advocating alcoholism here, I'm just saying that having a glass of wine while your kids play can relax both of you enough to laugh and joke, instead of exchanging facts about your kids.
«We are looking into this in a very aggressive way,» Collins said in response to questions raised about the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA) at a hearing before the House of Representatives spending panel that oversees NIH's budget.
«This research provides new insight about the potentially harmful effects of a lack of sleep on the brain and has implications for better characterizing the pathology of Alzheimer's disease,» said George F. Koob, Ph.D., director of the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA), part of the National Institutes of Health, which funded the study.
The FDA, in its warning letter to Meditherm, ordered the company to stop making broad claims about its cameras, pointing to a Web page that lists «76 specific conditions for which you say your device can be used... for example, lower motor neuron disease, neoplasias (melanoma, squamous cell, basal) and nutritional disease (alcoholism, diabetes).»
Adapted by Kassell from Steven Fechter's play of the same name, «The Woodsman» is at heart a film about the throes of recovery, but its studious avoidance of 12 - step therapy - speak, and its focus on a compulsive disorder that is morally inexcusable and universally repugnant, ensure that it has a far greater dramatic impact than similar films dealing with, say, alcoholism or drug addiction.
Fairly quickly the humor began to be pushed out as those mythologies surfaced, bringing in the California lifestyle, Jim Morrison's alcoholism and, as she says «the truth you think you know about something and someone and how that is disrupted as new information is unearthed».
i remember you saying something about his alcoholism being overlooked (maybe?)
I didn't mention anything about his alcoholism, though I did say I thought he seldom painted outside his palette comfort zone.
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