Why Is Alcoholism or Being an Alcoholic Considered a Disease?
Question by mags2313: Why is alcoholism or being an alcoholic considered a disease?
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Answer by kiki
Because it’s a mental and physical addiction. It’s not a choice. There’s a chemical reaction in the brain from it.
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Because nobody will admit it is their fault, like with drugs, it is always anybody else’ s responsibility.
My wife’s mother was an alcoholic and she was really mean to my wife when she was a teenager. And she blames everybody for being alcoholic, genes, addictive personality, friends, parents, my wife…. except herself.
Basically because it eventually kills you, just like a disease. Have you ever met an alcoholic? A true alcoholic? For some people they have to either quit drinking or they will die. My grandfather died at the age of 43 from being an alcoholic. His daughter, my aunt, is following in his footsteps. She was just hospitalized last week because she had a seizure. If she doesn’t get help, she’ll die. You see the pattern here? Its a disease and it kills.
Some Genestists have linked it to a gene