Is Drug Addiction A Glandular Disorder?

In his book, The Encyclopedia of Common Diseases, J. I. Rodale says :

“Alcoholism is a glandular disorder, and we can compare it with diabetes, as neither can properly metabolize carbohydrates. In the case of diabetes, not enough insulin is produced by the pancreatic gland which has this function, so the patient suffers from high blood sugar. In the case of alcoholics, there is too much insulin rather than too little, with the result that the alcoholic has low blood sugar. What causes the extra insulin that causes the low blood sugar? Apparently, the function of at least two glands is involved – the adrenals and the pituitary which regulates the adrenals.”

Another book, which has the same explanation as to the cause of alcoholism is by E.M Abrahamson, M.D., in his book, “Body, Mind and Sugar.” The author says :

“Alcoholism is caused by a deficiency in the adrenal corticol hormones – those hormones whose action is antithetical to insulin. The trouble may not be in the adrenal cortical itself, however, but in the master gland, the pituitary, which for some reason fails to stimulate the adrenal cortical glands as it does in normal operation of the endocrine system. It is believed, moreover, that this disability of the pituitary is not caused by the alcoholism itself but antedates it’s development.

Hyperinsulinism, with it’s chronic partial blood sugar starvation, is an essential underlying cause of alcoholism.”

If what these experts say is true, then we know that by working and adjusting back these important hormone-producing glands into normal functioning, every person who is afflicted with the disease of alcoholism may have a hoipe to return to a normal state, free of his craving for alcoholic stimulants.