Originally Posted by
freethinking 
Actually, I don't think the DSM-V calls labels alcoholism as a disease, does it? I think it is termed something else...alcohol abuse or dependence I think.
But yeah, I hear you on the "industry" bit.
(Really like Tolle too)
Yes, alcoholism as a descriptor has fallen out of use, favored now by substance abuse (alcohol), among other things that involved cross diagnoses in the Axes of the DSM.
FT