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From: suhre@trwrb.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.misc
Subject: Re: Urinalysis...Lie Detectors...all
Message-ID: <1080@trwrb.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 15-May-86 11:49:17 EDT
Article-I.D.: trwrb.1080
Posted: Thu May 15 11:49:17 1986
Date-Received: Sun, 18-May-86 15:38:11 EDT
References: <190@brl-sem>
Reply-To: suhre@trwrb.UUCP (Maurice E. Suhre)
Organization: TRW EDS, Redondo Beach, CA
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In article <190@brl-sem> ron@brl-sem writes:
>Subject: Re: Urinalysis...Lie Detectors...all th
>
>>      There is only one way alcohol can improve your health; that is, if you
>> average only one drink a day.
>
>Possibly, possibly not.  Totally unfounded statement.
>
I couldn't stand this any more.  My doctor told me "One glass of wine,
*maximum*, per day appears to be medically beneficial.  More than that
appears to not be medically beneficial."  [Emphasis is shown as best
as I recall].  Naturally, I didn't ask him for references.
>>  Alcoholism is a disease that someone is born with; it is often heredetary.
>
>Perhaps.  I don't believe this either.  The problem is that once someone
>has developed a habitual behaviour it is near impossible to eradicate it.
	Two million people have recovered from alcoholism with
	the help of the fellowship of Alcoholics Anonymous.  Their
	experience is in direct contradiction with the paragraph
	surrounding this one!
>You can force yourself into abstinance or rationing, but the habit is still
>there.  This is something that psychiatrists admit that there is currently
>little hope for.  The best they do is help people cope with the habit.
>
>-Ron

Maurice
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Maurice Suhre

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