User talk:Jgleissn

Alcoholism and slavery

The content you added is probably best at slavery but is a little too detailed for alcoholism. Doc James (talk · contribs · email) (if I write on your page reply on mine) 00:52, 22 April 2013 (UTC)

I strongly disagree:

Slaves were the great victims of alcoholism. Those subjected to abuse by alcoholics need a voice. In terms of reliability, comments made by multiple former slaves, including the most famous former slave, abolitionist Frederick Douglass, rank very high, especially when their views are highly consistent with each other and modern research. The power disparities of slavery created what might be considered laboratory conditions to study alcoholism in the historical and scientific contexts. That power disparity was highlighted again by Joseph Stalin, probably the most abusive alcoholic of all time, although those unversed in the disease of alcoholism fail to grasp the unmistakable characteristics of this infamous abusive alcoholic.

The edited comments were properly placed in the "History" sub-section and added American and world historical perspective to go with the German, Swedish, Greek and ancient examples. All the citations can be verified through a Library of Congress website containing the Federal Writers' Project Slave Narratives; docsouth at the University of North Carolina; or other cited publications.

Editing to the article "Alcoholism" ought to first eliminate junk science, things such as (1) the reference to "peyote" (!!) as a cure for alcoholism, (2) repeated pharmacological references that pale in significance compared to the proven yet article-neglected role of A.A. in "managing" alcoholism, (3) failure to differentiate alcohol use between southern and northern European cultures ("Alcohol consumption is relatively similar between many European cultures," (4) the restriction under "Research" to only the failed pharmacological approach as opposed to more important social psychological, legal and cultural forces and research; and I could go on and on.....

John Dewar Gleissner, Esquire — Preceding unsigned comment added by 66.168.249.240 (talk) 02:03, 22 April 2013 (UTC)

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Jgleissn, I noticed that a majority of your edits involve highlighting the same authors work and it appears that you may have a conflict of interest. Please review wikipedia's conflict of interest policy. You also inserted links to a blog run by that author, blogs are not allowed to be used and fall under wikipedia's list of links to be avoided. Your edits are good, but you haven't yet grasped onto wikipedia's style. Please read wikipedia's guidelines on what kind and how much information should be used, our manual of style, and our policy on how to avoid doing original research. Also a few of your edits violated copyright laws, as the ideas can be cited but the form in which those ideas were created belong to the author and publishing house. please read WP:COPYVIO to better understand our policies. Thank you and good luck editing.Coffeepusher (talk) 01:38, 22 April 2013 (UTC)

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