I use to sit in rehabs and get lectured about how I have a disease. But, in the real world people were not treating me like I was sick. They were treating me as if I was a criminal. No one seemed to give me any compassion. I became the stereotype of an alcoholic. And I still hold a lot of resentment towards the rehab folks who insisted I would be treated as if I was sick. My spiritual solution is all I have left. It contradicts the disease concept. And if it doesn't work, I am going to die.