together and they cured each other of alcoholism. let s take a look. if i stayed up there another minute, i was going to jump. why don t you just stop? [bleep] i don t know. the essence of good medicine is the healing power of good connection. and any kind of disease you have and with alcohol specifically, you can t do it alone. it s not a matter of will power. what these guys found out was that alcoholism is a disease. it s a disease with psychological, physical and spiritual elements. it had to be treated in all three ways. as he just said, it s real easy to fall into this trap and you have to treat it by the buddy system. when you are on the college campus, it s very risky and could be quite deadly. i spoke to bob beckel at the play. he came to see it with me. is he very famous for being a recovering alcoholic. he spreads this message everywhere. is he not shy about it. let s hear what he had to say.
rounds in recent years. mike is a recovering alcoholic. he s a big fan of the grateful dead. he s married and has two kids. andy davis is 87 years old now and is happily active in the episcopal church. she looks amazing. they kind of all do. i wanted an alice in my house to make me pork chops and applesauce. everybody has a little brady bunch in their life. a big dose of camaraderie kind of like a little family or like the family we have here at world news now. great graphic. study that. check it out. this is the world news now brady bunch. check it out. we have rob. a couple of former ones. we have the mr. polka. barry mitchell. bonita. you and i are there. rob nelson.
quite some time, answering a lot of questions. you ve also been very open about your struggles as a recovering alcoholic. you wrote in the book about sex addiction. when castro said i have an illness, just like an alcoholic, what did you think of that? well, as a recovering alcoholic with 18 years of sobriety, i can tell you that alcoholics and other addicts can get help, and there is a choice when you choose not to get help. this man has a lot of serious problems. he s likely a sociopath or a psychopath, but he may very well be a porn addict. that does not excuse his behavior. he s a monster. i m glad they locked him up for life plus 1,000 years and are throwing away the key. however, if, sanjay, it s an opportunity for us to look at the epidemic problem of porn addiction, it s a good thing. while only a tiny percentage of porn users become violent criminals, it s a good bet that
the vast majority of men who are committing violent crimes against women, sadistic crimes against women, have a great familiarity with porn, if not addiction to porn. let me get into this idea, though, a little bit in terms of how we should feel about him. and i asked this question in part as a doctor. and let me give you some of the facts here, first of all. the diagnostic and statistical manual, dsm, you re familiar with this, jane, the official psych bible, if you will, does not list sex addiction as a disorder. you think about these addictions, you think about the hallmarks of substance abuse. one of them is physical withdrawal. and again, you write about this very candidly in your book. i mean, it s tough to be a recovering alcoholic. you have the physical withdrawal symptoms. and that s one of the things that people look at in terms of saying this was an addiction. that doesn t happen with sex, though. well, look, there are substance addictions and then there are behavioral a
familiarity with porn, if not addiction to porn. let me get into this idea, though, a little bit in terms of how we should feel about him. i asked this question in part as a doctor. let me give you some of the facts first of all. the diagnostic and statistical man ue manual dsm, does not list sex addiction as a disorder. you think about these addictions, the hallmarks of substance abuse. one of them is physical withdrawal. and again, you write about this very candidly in your book. it s tough to be a recovering alcoholic. you have physical withdrawal symptoms. that s one of the things that people look at in terms of saying, this was an addiction. that zedoesn t happen with sex, though. well, look, there are substance addictions and then there are behavioral addictions. if you want to broadly define the term addiction, we can have a semantic debate. but it s a compulsive behavior that you continue despite the