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That’s such a BS distinction though and again a condescending denigration of AA based in a lie. AA does conceive of alcoholism as a physical illness but doesn’t only acknowledge that aspect of alcoholism. Treating it as only a medical issue isn’t enough.Looking down on people who treat addiction like a medical issue instead of a moral one is what they were talking about in the naltrexone episode when Christianity was brought into the discussion. It's not good enough to take a pill to lose an addiction to alcohol, you need to suffer, seek redemption, and continually atone for it to really count.
It’s one thing for a young single person to get cured via naltrexone but for example, consider an alcoholic parent who has been harming their family with years of drinking. the lying, absence, potential abuse, and the pain of watching someone destroy themselves that way that he or she has caused the family isn’t something that you just take a pill and you have fixed it and we all move on. Even recovery for the parent isn’t going to solve the issues that have been created in that family, especially when it involved young kids witnessing their caregiver being an addict, nor is understanding that it has been a disease that caused those actions. The alcoholic does actually need to seek redemption in some form after living that way, and will need support to come to grips with how their disease has impacted their life and the lives of others. There isn’t a pill for that aspect of recovery.