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Former TV Anchor Laurie Dhue Shares Her Struggle With Alcoholism (Former Fox Anchor)
AOL Health ^ | February 9, 2011 | Catherine Donaldson-Evans

Posted on 02/09/2011 1:43:14 PM PST by truthkeeper

Former television personality Laurie Dhue says she no longer knew who she was and was tired of suffering in silence from alcoholism when she decided to quit drinking and get help four years ago.

Dhue, who turns 42 tomorrow and was an anchor for the Fox News Channel, MSNBC and CNN, battled her addiction to alcohol for "at least" a decade and a half, she told the "Today" show Wednesday.

"I hid my alcoholism for many, many years," she said. "I was probably a high-functioning alcoholic, as so many people are. But there were cracks, certainly, and there were definitely times when people asked me what was wrong, and I just -- I didn't even know, myself."

Dhue remembers the day she realized she had a terrible problem and decided to get help...

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TOPICS: Chit/Chat; Health/Medicine; Miscellaneous
KEYWORDS: alcoholism; foxnews; lauriedhue
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To: hoosiermama
The American Medical Association (AMA) declared that alcoholism was an illness in 1956.

Needing to go to the liquor store to quell a craving for alcohol is not a 'disease' any more than having a physical addiction to cocaine, crack, heroin, or Ho Hos is a disease.

Physical and mental addiction is a medical condition that needs to be treated as such, but it is not a disease. Cancer is a disease. Polio is a disease.

It's no secret that people can become addicted to intoxicating substances just as its no secret that the AMA involves themselves in things like gun control and classifies things like acid reflux as a 'disease'.

This is a trend that has started with drug addiction and alcoholism and is likely to spread to obese people or sex addicts, classifying them as innocent victims of a disease rather than people who have issues controlling themselves.

No one needs the AMA to tell us that some people are more susceptible to becoming addicted to certain substances. Nobody needed the AMA to tell them that imbibing certain things affects different people in different ways.

Calling it a disease creates the illusion that this is something that is a pure medical condition and requires a medical solution.

I know alcoholics that have quit drinking cold turkey using nothing but old fashioned will power. For others it usually something more to quit.

So tell me, have you ever heard of an ALS sufferer cure themselves with nothing but willpower?

101 posted on 02/09/2011 9:04:20 PM PST by GunRunner (10 Years of Freeping...)
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To: meyer
Mistaken. Dhue worked at Fox from 2000-2008, CNN from 1990-1999, MSNBC from 1999-2000.

Laurie Dhue Leaves FNC

102 posted on 02/09/2011 9:50:46 PM PST by A.A. Cunningham (Barry Soetoro is a Kenyan communist)
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To: EDINVA
APA - American Psychiatric Association - 1973
APA - American Psychological Association - 1975
103 posted on 02/09/2011 9:58:09 PM PST by A.A. Cunningham (Barry Soetoro is a Kenyan communist)
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To: hoosiermama
Are you aware that there is a gene in true alcoholics that has a “problem”. Also note that just like diabetes alcoholism is the body's malfunction in the use of sugar. In fact they both run in the same families.

Yes, I was aware that alcoholism and blood sugar problems (hypoglycemia, for one) are much related and often alcoholics are also hypoglycemic. Learned it as a child -- my mother is pretty severely hypoglycemic; her father, my grandfather, was an alcoholic who died before I was born; stories I heard from people who knew him revealed that he and I both reacted to booze in the same way -- we went nuts. That knowledge had zero affect on my alcoholism.

That it's likely a genetic thing is beside the point. It's genetic that some people are allergic to strawberries, too.

Knowledge IS the answer to correcting the problem ... not arrest and shame!

Knowledge is the answer for alcoholics ONLY when that knowledge is of the obvious: the problem is happening because the person is indulging in a destructive (for him, genetically) behavior. CEASE the behavior, and the problem goes away. The whys and genetics are interesting details, but in no way change that fact that it is a matter of behavior, of self-discipline, of self-determination, of self-love.

Arrests and shame are necessary responses to alcoholism. Cops have a duty to arrest people who pose a danger to others. Those who are so weak of character that they indulge in a destructive behavior that is clearly endangering innocents around them, are deserving of shame, as I most certainly was when I drank, drove, and caused strife and trouble for strangers as well as loved ones. I shamed my loved ones, and I shamed myself. I still cringe to think of the things I did, and that crigning is well-deserved shame. Anyone who says otherwise is blowing smoke.

Outreach programs like the one your sheriff set up are fine and good, nothing wrong with them at all. But they are supplements, and both arrest and shame, unpleasant as they are, are yet part and parcel of the alcoholic's lot. Indeed, they are among the motivators to QUIT drinking.

104 posted on 02/10/2011 12:31:10 AM PST by Finny ("Raise hell. Vote smart." -- Ted Nugent)
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To: GunRunner

Amen, brother FReeper! :^)


105 posted on 02/10/2011 12:37:40 AM PST by Finny ("Raise hell. Vote smart." -- Ted Nugent)
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To: a fool in paradise
What do you think led her to drinking?

After my first brandy at 15 I spent the next 25 years chasing down every drop of alcohol I could find. Heaven in a bottle, demon in disguise. Thank God the last 16 years have been sober ones.

Why did I drink, why does a duck swim or a bird fly?

106 posted on 02/10/2011 1:34:07 AM PST by this_ol_patriot (Lord Jesus Christ, Son of God, have mercy on me, a sinner)
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To: Finny

We have to stop Meeting like this...


107 posted on 02/10/2011 3:32:13 AM PST by equaviator ("There's a (datum) plane on the horizon coming in...see it?")
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To: GunRunner

I absolutley agree with this assertion. In the eyes of the government, they are one of those higher powers to which alcoholics should turn over their lives, if not THE higher power.


108 posted on 02/10/2011 3:37:31 AM PST by equaviator ("There's a (datum) plane on the horizon coming in...see it?")
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To: A.A. Cunningham

Man, I just don’t remember her being there that recently. And I don’t remember her NOT being there in the late 1990’s. Who was the one that left Fox just before 9/11?

Getting old stinks!


109 posted on 02/10/2011 4:32:35 AM PST by meyer (We will not sit down and shut up.)
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To: A.A. Cunningham
APA - American Psychiatric Association - 1973
APA - American Psychological Association - 1975

APA - American Poolplayers Association - The only APA for which I qualify for membership.

110 posted on 02/10/2011 4:34:54 AM PST by meyer (We will not sit down and shut up.)
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To: Perdogg

Oh the tall one. Forgot about her.


111 posted on 02/10/2011 4:36:38 AM PST by Impy (Don't call me red.)
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To: AGreatPer

I’ve always been amazed that some people have the ability to function after drinking. I know I can’t.

She sure looks classy.


112 posted on 02/10/2011 6:05:36 AM PST by PhiloBedo (You gotta roll with the punches and get with what's real.)
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To: A.A. Cunningham

yeah, I realized it was the APA, but when one got medical treatment, didn’t AMA recognize the APA designations? And vice versa? I don’t see alcoholism in the same category as, say, diabetes.


113 posted on 02/10/2011 6:28:04 AM PST by EDINVA
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To: EDINVA

I don’t know. I haven’t been able to find anything about the AMA ever removing homos from the screwed up in the head category.


114 posted on 02/10/2011 8:17:12 AM PST by A.A. Cunningham (Barry Soetoro is a Kenyan communist)
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To: truthkeeper

Holy crap. She was, and probably is, so amazingly beautiful, but I know this struggle, this journey-of-recovery, so very well.


115 posted on 02/10/2011 8:20:07 AM PST by Lazamataz (If Illegal Aliens are Undocumented Workers, then Thieves are Undocumented Shoppers.)
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To: SE Mom

You gotta spell my name right, SexMom. ;)


116 posted on 02/10/2011 8:21:34 AM PST by Lazamataz (If Illegal Aliens are Undocumented Workers, then Thieves are Undocumented Shoppers.)
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To: Lazlo in PA

I would buy her a club soda or a mocktail. :-)


117 posted on 02/10/2011 8:22:14 AM PST by Tolerance Sucks Rocks (up)
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To: Islander7

She wants you.

118 posted on 02/10/2011 8:23:52 AM PST by Lazamataz (If Illegal Aliens are Undocumented Workers, then Thieves are Undocumented Shoppers.)
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To: BubbaJunebug
Wow...I just assumed that LAZ had “hit it”...and she went off to a convent.

I hit it.

Then she had to drink, to forget.

119 posted on 02/10/2011 8:25:48 AM PST by Lazamataz (If Illegal Aliens are Undocumented Workers, then Thieves are Undocumented Shoppers.)
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To: Lazamataz

Oh my...did *I* do that?! ;)

PS.. it’s actually for ScreamingEagle Mom!


120 posted on 02/10/2011 8:28:26 AM PST by SE Mom (Proud mom of an Iraq war combat vet)
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