Dr. Drew - HLN - Can gastric bypass fuel alcoholism?

Can gastric bypass fuel alcoholism?

You know what I think about this.  

"I started practicing the disease with food."  Well said, Craig.   (And thanks for the shout out.)

I mean it.

Dr. Drew on HLN -

Thompson later told Dr. Drew, “I love being comfortable. When I'm uncomfortable, that's when things get scary. And when I'm uncomfortable, that's when I look for something to stabilize that level of anxiety. And since I didn't know how to do it internally, I looked for external factors to do it -- whether it was a substance or a relationship -- and one of the things that we're seeing, probably even more than alcohol, is sexual acting out.”

• “There's a piece here that we miss, which is dealing with the underlying emotional regulation issues often built on trauma.” 
• Dr. Drew - http://www.hlntv.com/video/2012/07/03/can-gastric-bypass-fuel-alcoholism
• Study - http://jama.jamanetwork.com/article.aspx?articleid=1185618