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- Path: sparky!uunet!acd4!TEFS1!wdo
- From: wdo@TEFS1.acd.com (Bill Overpeck)
- Subject: Re: Yet more unsubstantiated stuff from Nyikos
- Message-ID: <1992Nov17.205159.28392@acd4.acd.com>
- Sender: news@acd4.acd.com (USENET News System)
- Organization: Applied Computing Devices, Inc., Terre Haute IN
- Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1992 20:51:59 GMT
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- In <1992Nov07.061227.103583@watson.ibm.com> margoli@watson.ibm.com
- (Larry Margolis) writes: >
- In <1992Nov2.194806.1031@acd4.acd.com> wdo@TEFS1.acd.com
- (Bill Overpeck) writes: >>
- In <1992Oct31.032532.28814@cs.yale.edu> : rescorla@rtnmr.chem.yale.edu
- (Eric Rescorla) writes: >>>
-
- >>At any rate, the incidence of such problems is widespread enough
- >>that one certainly doesn't have to work in my profession to have
- >>come into contact with it.
- >
- >Do you think that the fact that in your profession the only users you
- >come in contact with (at least, where you *know* that they're users)
- >are *abusers* might have anything to do with the problems you seem to
- >have distinguishing the two?
-
- I am not an addictions counselor. I come into contact with
- many *users* and their families. The distinction between "use"
- and "abuse" is quite *moot* if the impaired individual is un-
- able to function in a supportive capacity for a spouse or a
- child. "I'm sorry, Sally, Daddy is wasted right now but I'm
- sure he'll tuck you in some other night".
-
- Bill
-