Interesting as to how it relates to the TTI.
http://www.indiana.edu/~engs/cbook/chap6.htmlWhy We Should Reject The Disease Concept of Alcoholism
Herbert Fingarette, Ph. D.
But the greatest scandal of the argument for the disease concept as a useful lie is the claim that it helps alcoholics by inducing them to enter treatment. On the contrary, both independent and government research shows expensive disease-oriented treatment programs to be largely a waste of money and human resources (Fingarette, 1989). Their apparent success proves illusory when they are compared in statistically rigorous studies with other programs, and with the rate of improvement in untreated alcohol abusers (which is a much higher rate than the disease concept has led the public to believe). Very often, perhaps always, brief outpatient counseling works just as well as a long stay in a hospital orother residential clinic costing thousands of dollars. Some studies conclude that professional intervention is slightly better than no treatment, although it makes nodifference what the treatment method, duration, setting, or cost is. Other studies find no significant difference in results regardless of whether there is treatment.
