Ending the Drug Addiction Pandemic: Discovering the Liberating Truth by Milam James R

Author:Milam, James R. [Milam, James R.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781628572094
Amazon: 1628572094
Publisher: Strategic Book Publishing
Published: 2013-11-22T05:00:00+00:00

Chapter 7: Actions of Alcohol & Onset of Alcoholism

ACTIONS

In spite of the conclusive clinical and animal evidence to the contrary, even today almost everyone still nods in agreement with Jellinek’s assertion that alcoholism is caused by heavy relief drinking, defined as drinking for sedation to relieve psychosocial stress. This misperception is so universal and so persistent only because it is an integral part of a whole network of mutually supportive falsehoods that together seem inarguable. And that is why it has been necessary to present this lengthy item by item repudiation.

Everyone believes that alcohol is primarily a sedative drug. This belief has been enshrined in the literature for many decades as a given premise simply because it is a cornerstone of the psychogenic paradigm. It makes it seem plausible that some people become alcoholics by drinking too much trying to sedate themselves either because they have more psychological stress in their lives, or because they are less competent in handling normal amounts of stress. The anguish of the later withdrawal reaction can then be misconstrued as underlying psychological anxiety that the alcoholic was drinking to relieve with sedation. As just discussed, the testretest and longitudinal human studies as well as the animal studies have conclusively shown that this whole construction is false. Any lingering doubt is dispelled by the fact that the legitimate research studies reviewed by both Courville and Wallgren and Barry explained and documented the fact that alcohol is not primarily a sedative drug.

In the small to medium dosage range alcohol acts as a primary stimulant as it tends to liquefy the cytoplasm, or main substance of the cells. Then only in larger amounts it tends to coagulate the cytoplasm and act as a sedative.

Sedation clearly comes third in sequence and in importance for both normal drinkers and alcoholics. Nonetheless, psychiatrists have always promoted the illusion that alcohol is predominantly if not exclusively a sedative drug. To this end NIAAA has always generously funded biased research to perpetuate the illusion that there are discrete inhibitory centers in the brain that alcohol selectively sedates, thereby releasing the excitatory centers making alcohol seem to be a stimulant. It is only this combination of falsehoods that provides the indispensable support for the belief that the cause of alcoholism is relief drinking – drinking to relieve psychological stress. The public has not had access to the abundant scientific evidence that clearly shows that this contrived complex explanation is completely false.

When alcohol is ingested it is quickly distributed in the blood stream throughout the body and is used everywhere as a rich and ready source of energy. Of course the substitution of the naked calories of alcohol for energy derived from complex foods deprives the body of the nutritional elements normally present in the diet causing all alcoholics to suffer from progressive malnutrition as they progress in active alcoholism. While drinking they are notoriously careless about when they eat, what they eat, if they eat. During acute withdrawal they are too sick to keep any food down.

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