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Originally Posted by scooter
I hate when people call alcoholism a "disease".
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you say it's all about a choice. when a person no longer functions but still drinks is diseased. after he has lost everything: his friends, his family, his job, etc., and still he drinks is no longer making a choice.
webster's defines disease as : a disordered or incorrectly functioning organ, part, structure, or system of the body resulting from the effect of genetic or developmental errors, infection, poisons, nutritional deficiency or imbalance, toxicity, or unfavorable environmental factors; illness; sickness; ailment.
alcoholism is a disease