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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: DMaA who wrote (78255)	11/16/2000 4:10:54 PM
From: swisstrader	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769667

If someone admits to being an alcoholic, are they not dependent on alcohol?...much in the way a drug addict is dependent on drugs...also look at the following definition of addiction which illustrates the point: addiction n 1: being abnormally dependent on something that is psychologically or physically habit-forming (especially alcohol or narcotic drugs) [syn: dependence, dependency] 2: an abnormally strong craving dependency n 1: lack of independence or self-sufficiency [syn: dependence, dependance] 2: being abnormally dependent on something that is psychologically or physically habit-forming (especially alcohol or narcotic drugs) [syn: addiction, dependence]