Should alcoholics have liver transplants

Answer 1

No, if there is someone on the list before the alcoholic.

Yes. The alcoholic's birthright includes the right to a liver, whilst the other does not have this.

If you disagree, you are a heretic and W and Jeebus will get you.

Answer 2

Doctors will take this into account when deciding recipients for a transplant. If there are two suitable patients - one who drinks and one who doesn't - then the mon-drinker is much more likely to get the new liver.

Of course they do! But I agree too that if drinker damaged his liver by way of alcohol, and there was a non-drinker, I believe , the non-drinker should get the transplant. Alcoholics have a disease. They can't just be casual drinkers. I applaud the ones that can go to Re-hab one time and live the rest of their life using the tools they learned on how to stay sober. I feel empathy for the ones that don't want it bad enough to quit. Alcohol is but a symptom, the real reason for drinking lies inside them.

In NYS they will not take a patient unless they have been alcohol free for 6 months, and they must submit proof of that through random testing etc. (This criteria is also used in the UK) So if they drank - they would have to wait another 6 months to get on the list for the transplant.

I believe the answer to that question is Yes! Everyone deserves to have a transplant if they need one. BUT .. should that person have the transplant? which is a totally different question and the answer is No, because the transplant would fail. So for health reasons, not moralistic ones, a transplant would not be given.

Answer 3

Nobody should be denied one. Some people think they should pay for them themselves. (They already have a strict criteria that has to be fulfilled before they are considered for a liver transplant.)

Answer 4

That asks for opinion about medical and psychological issues that we cannot answer. However, it is extremely difficult for alcoholics to get on transplant lists. An alcoholic who relapses after a transplant will often die, which would waste a liver that could have helped someone with better prospects.

Answer 5

I say Yes But, They would have to be serious about turning away the reckless life that they had been leading in the past....