Assignment problem: Eating disorders fall under addictions in the DSM now one of the most popular treatment for addictions would be Alcoholics Anonymous (AA) or Narcotics anonymous (NA) One of their rules would be absence that You need to completely absenting from your drug of choice in order to recover that one little slip off one glass of wine can lead you right down that path back into alcoholism. So if eating disorders are under addiction, how cannot hold with treatment then? Because you cannot abstain from foods, you have to learn how to eat in moderation.
So if we can learn to eat in moderation with one addiction, why can't you learn to drink in moderation if you were an alcoholic?