The philosophy of the alcohol addiction Research project - Thinking Aloud

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18.11.2016

Unlike the thirst of water and the hunger of food that have to be satisfied without fail the consumption of ethanol isn’t necessary for the physiological functioning of a human body. So a normal wish to drink it can be compared to a desire to try some delicacies (as an additional regulative the esthetic determinant can be viewed in this aspect).

17.11.2016

The simplest model to describe the alcoholic behavior can be the structure of three basic parameters. Firstly, even the oral consumption of this substance is a very complex process that can’t be confined to inborn or acquired reflex. It’s always volitional behavior . Of course, it isn’t that will in its philosophical understanding that we’ll describe further. A very simple example of volitional behavior is deliberate breath-holding, which is a disruption of the reflex basis of this function of the body. And the reasons behind the holding of breath can be different. We may hold it as a part of a long-term plan or just for an up-to-the-minute wish with unclear reasons

16.11.2016

Alcohol consumption isn’t just its intake (the human behavior structure described by the consummatory model concept). Normally thу drinking pattern isn’t just a way to get ethanol. Wine drinking, as we described above, is a social act, not just a wish to consume this product. Besides, a non-addict can suppress the desire to drink following external factors or certain factors outside a person’s control can push him or her to drink despite his or her wish

15.11.2016

Wine is the oldest food after bread ever made by humans. The wine industry, like the manufacture of other alcoholic beverages, has its traditions and many brands (from really cheap to extremely expensive). Thus, this significant part of the cultural heritage can’t be confined to the production of substances that intoxicate human mind. A consumer may like the taste of an alcoholic beverage and the thing called by the researchers the symbolic motives of wine drinking including the image and adherence to certain traditions of a local

14.11.2016

A glimpse of history. In 1848 Magnus Huss, a Swedish doctor was first to speak about the chronic alcoholism . One may speculate, of course, if the law of gravitation had existed before Newton stated it. Things are more complex with alcoholism. Indeed, the concept integrity won’t be spoilt if we should believe an individual’s strife to self-intoxication a deliberate choice and a drunk behavior as a mere immoral action. Today's laws of Belarus, for example, characterize it as “insult of human dignity and virtue”.

Even a brief analysis of the principles of rehabilitation programs shows that the philosophy of the majority of them won’t suffer a thing, if we consider them a moral correction programs, not a disease treatment ones. So, it turns out that theory and practice allow omitting the addiction as disease. And the question whether we can’t describe the alcoholism as a disease due to a lack of arguments or a lack of research evidence for the time being – is still unanswered.