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The Mayo Clinic provides a good description of alcoholism:
When you have alcoholism, you lose control over your drinking. You may not be able to control when you drink, how much you drink, or how long you drink on each occasion.
I was most certainly was out of control with my alcoholism/addiction. AA and other treatment programs can effectively treat for alcoholism. Even tho the treatments of various recovery programs differ in their approach to alcoholism, the description of alcoholism looks to be the same.