Originally Posted by
defyinggravity 
... I certainly don't want to start some great disease/non-disease debate but I do have very strong views about this and when a statement was made on a blog I frequently read, I had to comment. I wanted to share my opinion with all of you about addiction the disease.
Posts like this pop up about every 30 days around here. Probably that is how long it takes them to fall of the top 20 list.
IMHO what you choose to call it is an adjunct issue. I choose to call it an affliction because it struck me like a bolt of lightning. The real issue is whether there is a solution/remedy/way out that is reliable to last a person for the rest of their life.
IMNSHO there is a pinnacle in recovery. A Spiritual Awakening which will remove the obsession to drink "root and branch". For me it is no longer one-arduous-day-at-a-time. I stay spiritually fit ODAAT and thoughts of it stay of my radar screen ODAAT.