Alcoholism and Alcohol Abuse

'Alcoholism is a disease. It’s a fact that too many people forget, when they talk about alcoholics and alcohol abuse. It is not a choice, or a function of personal will. Alcoholics aren’t alcoholics because they choose to be; they’re alcoholics because they’re sick, and because their sickness outstrips anything that might ever be called their personal will. The flipside, of course, is that no victim of alcoholism can ever simply choose to get better. As alcoholism is a disease, so is clinical alcohol treatment vital to an addict’s prospects for long-term recovery. No one beats alcohol dependency alone...(more)'