If you want another perspective on this Pressmetilihurt, have a look in secular connections at the AVRT explained sticky.
In AVRT there is no disease. The desire to drink is a mistaken survival drive.
When you drink, the reward centres of the brain light up that are normally reserved for legit survival urges, only much more reward, as alcohol is a powerful drug.
The primal part of the brain, which every animal has (the beast brain) comes to recoginze these rewards every time we drink and then mistakenly "thinks" (in reality, it cannot think, it's just urges) we need alcohol for survival.
So is born the desire for alcohol (the Beast), this primitive part of the brain sees it as vital to survival as the legit survival urges. And just as if you were starving, it would send you out on a mission to find food, you would think of nothing but food, so it does with alcohol.
As this part of the brain cannot think, and is timeless, it just sends out the urges with no thought of the consequences. Thats what the neo-cortex (the "you" part of the brain) is for thinking, reasoning, all the higher thinking functions.
This is a very basic outline of course Just thought I would pipe up with a different perspective than the disease model.
There are interesting posts in the secular forum here about this