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Interesting read. Thank you for posting it. I was actually talking about this with a friend today. I work with a lot of people who have reduced executive functioning and have a great deal of difficulty predicting consequences, sustaining focus, resisting temptation, etc. I can totally see how alcohol (or other addictive substances) can quickly dig its claws into someone with this cognitive profile. And from what I've read, chronic alcohol abuse only serves to cause more frontal lobe damage. It's no wonder then that an alcoholic can come to feel utterly powerless when it comes to booze and would need to surrender to an external locus of power.
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