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Most doctors will also tell an alchoholic to stop drinking.

• LeifCarrotson 10y ago
  And smokers to stop smoking! Discrimination!
• pixl97 10y ago
  Actually they won't. You can very quickly kill a dependent alcoholic without special treatments. Going cold turkey has a risk of sudden death. Quickly losing a massive amount of weight has risks too. That said, if a doctor says you have a condition that is being exacerbated by obesity, the patient should be sent to a weight specialist.
  • tcj_phx 10y ago
    > You can very quickly kill a dependent alcoholic without special treatments. Going cold turkey has a risk of sudden death. My girlfriend became profoundly psychotic when she ran out of alcohol. She was taken to the hospital, who didn't care that she had been drinking, and didn't include on their 'petition for court-ordered evaluation' that their initial blood work found cocaine metabolites. The psychiatrists at the county's behavioral health center also didn't care that their patient told them she'd been drinking heavily. Modern Medicine does some things quite well. Weight loss and addiction are two areas where conventional medicine is inadequate.