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  Ashiri3Apr. 25, 2009 - 11:10PM JST

  As a substance abuse counselor I would like to state ALOHOLISM is a medical condition, the same as mental illness, cancer, etc as well as a social issue! I work with it everyday...A few comments: first of all drinking yourself stupid obviously has negative impacts on your physical health (liver anyone?)...vomiting from drinking is your brain saying the level of alcohol in your bloodstream has reached toxic levels!!! I would go out on a limb and state due to Japan being a more emotionally restrained society overall, that drinking is a negative coping skill for many, alcoholic or not. I see how this disease destroys lives, and it saddens me to think many could be helped with a change in society's perspective of the disease and some counseling!

  So for those of you with better insight RE this topic: has public attitude changed?

  Posted in: There has been little change in basic public attitudes toward alcoholism during the past couple of decades with most Japanese seeing it as a social problem rather than a disease requiring treatment.

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  Ashiri3Apr. 25, 2009 - 10:42PM JST

  As a past AmeriCorp volunteer I can attest to the fact that the pay received is so minimal that I could not have lived on this job alone had I not been a student receiving education loans! Due to my "income" I qualified for food stamps...a person deciding to serve their community while living in poverty are volunteers to me- (FYI funding for AmeriCorp was decreased under Bush)

  Posted in: Obama calls on Americans to volunteer

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