P.S. Correction to the first sentence of my prior post. Should read "may result from the probability that the [two explanations- disease or something other than disease] may not be mutually exclusive, neither do they exhaust all the possibilities." My point is that alcoholism is complex and may in part resemble an illness or "disease" but may have other aspects as well- genetic, cultural, psychiatric, volitional, etc. etc. Thus the argument over whether it is a "disease" or not may be due to "either or" thinking that may be inappropriate.
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