Originally Posted by
CentralOhioDad 
I'm not going to start the whole "it is/is not a disease" conversation, but I'll pass on what someone told me on these forums several years ago: You don't run down to the corner store to buy cancer.
Today my husband brought up his "disease". I told him I was going to walk him through the cancer ward at the hospital because if they could just stop buying something to be cured I bet they would. He can just stop buying his booze and "cure his disease"