is alcoholism a disease?

Answer 1

Yes, alcoholism is a disease and has been recognized as such by the American Medical Association.

The craving that an alcoholic feels for alcohol can be as strong as the need for food or water. An alcoholic will continue to drink despite serious family, health, or legal problems.

Like Type I diabetes and some other diseases, alcoholism is chronic, meaning that it lasts a person's lifetime; it often follows a predictable course; and it has symptoms particular to the disease. Genetics, lifestyle and environment all effect a person's risk of becoming an alcoholic.

Answer 2

Not only is alcoholism a disease, it's a progressive disease. Key is a personality change for the worse even if you have just had 1 drink. Part of the disease is the alcoholic's selfishnessness. Never argue with an alcoholic, especially if he/she has been drinking. Get your coat and leave the house. In addition, do not enable the alcholic. He/She will eventually hit rock bottom and get help. The alcholic must want the change, not you.

Answer 3

People get awful diseases like cancer, leukemia, diabetes. They don't have any choice. They just get them.

What about alcoholism?

Does the young adult have any forewarning that behaving just like almost everyone else they know will ultimately result in a life-shattering condition just as serious as the most aggressive cancer?

You don't choose whether or not you are an alcoholic. Just the same as you don't choose whether or not you get cancer, or whether or not the plane you are on happens to crash into a mountain.

Yes, an alcoholic does have the choice of whether or not to take that first drink. The alcoholic does NOT have the choice of whether or not that first drink will send them back down that self-destructive spiral that they hate more than anything else in their lives.

Alcoholism is a disease of both the body and the mind. Like many other diseases, alcoholism is treatable. However, it has to be treated physiologically, psychologically, and sociologically. This makes it one of the hardest conditions to treat known to man.

Answer 4

yes. Yes, alcoholism is a disease. The craving that an alcoholic feels for alcohol can be as strong as the need for food or water. An alcoholic will continue to drink despite serious family, health, or legal problems

Answer 5

NO...a disease is like Cancer, Diabetes, or Multiple Sclerosis. Diseases aren't something for which one can go to a meeting, decide to stop and be recovered.

People are stuck with a disease...they cannot go to a store purchase cancer and take it home. They cannot decide that they'll leave cancer at home so they can go to work and not get fired for bringing cancer with them.

Alcoholism is an ADDICTION, through lots of hard work and support and sometimes hospitalization...Alcoholics can quit drinking.

What disease exists in which you can make a mental decision to stop carrying physically??? NONE.

I'm not saying that becoming sober is easy...I'm just stating a fact...it's a choice...it's a mental choice to overcome the physical cravings...just like porn addiction, smoking, drugs...

Answer 6

Yes. An alcoholic's brain reacts to alcohol differently than someone without the disease. Different chenicals are released.

Answer 7

Alcoholism is a disease period.

Answer 8

Some say it is. I think it's more of an addiction just like any other addiction like smoking, drugs, food, etc...if that's what your poison is it's hard to stay away from it because it's all or nothing. An alcoholic can't have just one drink. So, they have to refrain from drinking all together. It's the same way with smoking & drugs.~

Answer 9

Alchololism and drug abuse are a disease that change your personallity [and your apperance] until all you care about is your form of self deprecation [that includes cutting]

Answer 10

Yes.