I dunno im iffy. Alcoholism as a disease when they drink the disease....
It is something they pick up and put in their body and it can be battled if they never pick it up again.
But then again a person eats alot of sweets ( not all but some) and develop diabetes however they battle diabetes lifelong much like an alcoholic whom must refrain from alcohol...battling to not pick it up.
I think alcoholism is on a very fine line between addiction and disease. Very fine line.