I don't like the term disease applied to addiction of any kind even though there are physical consequences including dependance to feel normal because most diseases normally are not like that: Cancer and leukemia just don't seem to be the same. Choice is the major divider. For that reason I prefer to think of alcholism as a behavioral malady or 'condition' with potentially serious physical consequences--including in the brain. The term 'disease' just seems to be too confusing due to the normal way it is understood to this day.
I guess we're all entitled to
"like" whatever we want, or choose sides one way or the other. Seems all a matter of semantics, personal preferences and/or biases. Belief can be a very strong thing: positive and negative. I know folks who have been diagnosed as diabetic and they
"prefer" to call it a
"condition" instead of a disease. I mean, there are people who become diabetic through no choice (like children) and there are those who acquire it as a result of lifestyle. The same can be said of cancer. I often wonder if there is a
"normal" way to understand or interpret anything nowadays, especially considering how the various points of view have strong camps to support their theories. We, as people, believe what we want to believe whether there's proof or not.
http://nickscape.net/recoveryzone/disease.htm http://www.sosdallas.com/addiction.htm http://worldwideaddiction.com/articl...aseconcept.htm
According to
"most," addiction/alcoholism is understood (and qualifies) as a disease.