starts as a sin and progresses to disease
I think alcoholism starts as a sin but once addiction takes hold it progreses into a disease. Being able to control it if you wanted to, but choosing to drink til passed out I think would be a sin. Wanting so badly not to drink and not being able to control it no matter how hard you try, I think would classify as a disease. I think after repetitive excessive use, something must happen in the brain to make it so difficult or impossible to control. If it's not a disease, I don't see why I'd choose to do something that's killing me.... And if neither, what else would it be?