Bruce B. Adams v. Caspar Weinberger, Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare

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• “finding of no disability cannot rest on the testimony of [claimant], admittedly a chronic alcoholic, that ‘the quitting drinking, there is no great problem there. Well, I enjoy it, and I don’t — I don’t think the beer hurts me, particularly.’ ”
• ALJ should have focused on alcohol addiction and voluntary ability to control its use rather than on the inability to abstain from alcohol consumption
• ALJ should have focused on alcohol addiction and voluntary ability to control its use rather than on the inability to abstain from alcohol consumption
• “By focusing on ‘the absence of evidence that claimant has significant organ damage that precludes work activity,’ the Administrative Law Judge and Appeals Council applied an improper legal standard .... ”
• alcoholism could constitute a disability entitling one to disability benefits under the Social Security Act
• “[w]e are not so Victorian as to be indifferent to the expanding theoiy of alcoholism being a disease”

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