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Politics : Don't Blame Me, I Voted For Kerry -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Wayners who wrote (37261)	7/23/2004 3:21:59 PM
From: ChinuSFO	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 81568

Ex-alcoholic is like shunning somebody for being an Ex-cancer patient. That is a wrong analogy. You do not deliberately acquire cancer. But alcoholism, drug addiction, steroid use that someone does deliberately. It proves a person's error in judgement. In a society, you can rehab someone and not have to send that person to the gallows. But the rules for a President are very different. You cannot have someone out there with impaired skills. Reagan, who was popular and had a significant support starts to loose that support when people learn that he is afflicted with Alzheimer's. Isn't that an impairement. Similarly, severe addiction to alcohol causes that impairment and is a scientific fact. Cognitive Impairment and Recovery Alcohol Alert From NIAAA <font color=red>Brain damage is a common and potentially severe consequence of long-term, heavy alcohol consumption. <font color=black>Even mild-to-moderate drinking can adversely affect cognitive functioning (i.e., mental activities that involve acquiring, storing, retrieving, and using information) (1). Persistent cognitive impairment can contribute to poor job performance in adult alcoholics, and can interfere with learning and academic achievement in adolescents with an established pattern of chronic heavy drinking (2). <font color=red>A small but significant proportion of the heaviest drinkers may develop devastating, irreversible brain-damage syndromes, <font color=black>such as Wernicke-Korsakoff syndrome, a disorder in which the patient is incapable of remembering new information for more than a few seconds (3). <more>...http://alcoholism.about.com/cs/alerts/l/blnaa53.htm