At this point, I don't really invest much time splitting hairs about what to label my addiction. Whether it's called disease, addiction, illness, sickness, affliction, insanity, etc... it really doesn't impact what I'm doing to address it, especially since what I'm doing is working. It's also helping to make me an all-around better person in the meantime.
I wasted a lot of years, most of those years, avoiding the one thing that is working for me now simply because I couldn't accept the disease-model of addiction. Meanwhile, I kept getting drunk. I kept getting sicker. But I finally got to the point where what we call it is irrelevant to me. If anyone asks, I usually call it an illness. I avoid the term "disease," simply because it does tend to be polarizing and that detracts from the most important part: recovery. I simply want to live, and I want to do it sober. The way I have chosen is, so far, the only thing that is consistently helping me do that.