Samuel A. FERGUSON, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. Margaret M. HECKLER, Secretary of Health and Human Services, Defendant-Appellee

GEE, Circuit Judge,

specially concurring:

Although I do not dissent from the panel’s disposition, I believe that in cases in which a social security claimant who has suffered no end-organ damage is disabled by alcoholism that appears to be uncontrollable it is preferable to condition an award of disability benefits upon the claimant’s undergoing treatment for his alcoholism, if such treatment is reasonably available. See Adams v. Weinberger, 548 F.2d 239, *506245-46 (8th Cir.1977); Sharpe v. Califano, 438 F.Supp. 1282, 1286 (E.D.Va.1977).1

This practice comports with the reasoning underlying 20…