tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5146827.post773141987641220105..comments2023-10-23T08:30:40.191-05:00Comments on Wanderings of a Post-Modern Pilgrim: When Addiction Was Always FatalpmPilgrimhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00426657674375376465noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5146827.post-39832503237154632322013-02-05T17:01:22.766-06:002013-02-05T17:01:22.766-06:00Yes, we've come a ways in our understanding of...Yes, we've come a ways in our understanding of this disease. Unfortunately, accompanying our current understanding is the persistent perspective that it is an individual problem, a singular human experience arising out of a particular brain chemistry in combination with alcohol.<br /><br />What gets ignored in the current disease conception is the shaping power of environment, the post-birth development of humans, the economic pressures that compel both parents to work (assuming there are two parents present) and the anxiety visited upon the developing human child and the lingering affects thereof. <br /><br />Our use of the word "disease" manages to isolate addiction, individualize it, and settle for an unsatisfying etiology that lets the way our society lives off the hook.Greg Chamberlinnoreply@blogger.com