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Re: Alcohol addiction risk after bariatric surgery?

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Originally Posted by jblack View Post
Garth mentioned this problem on one episode of Big Medicine... I have also seen an episode of Dr. Phil that had a couple and the wife became a major alcoholic after her surgery. She drank a lot of beer, which I can't really understand because of the carbonation...
I was shocked too, but there aren't a lot of legal addictive type substances one can transfer to in exchange for the food they no longer eat.
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