Is drinking "too much" a disease like A.A. believes?

Question

What's "too much"? How much is too much? Drinking alcohol is not a disease! Doing drugs is not a disease! It's a choice. So it is a bad choice. Choices aren't diseases. Does anybody know what a disease is? its internal not external like alcohol

Answer 1

A.A people dont believe its a disease...
its a group for people who know its a choice and have choosen not to drink. but an alcoholic is someone who when they drink alcohol, even some cannot control themselves.
Not all alcholics drink too much.
they just dont like what they do when they drink. they might become angry, depressed, violent so they go to be with others like them so that they can talk to other people like them

Answer 2

I agree with you and many others do, too. It's not that they believe that "drinking too much" is a disease... it's that they believe that alcoholism is a disease... that the addiction is a disease.

Drinking to the point of becoming addicted, is also a choice.

My understanding of the controversy, according to the very brief research I did, is that, by calling something a disease, it qualifies for government funding.. or something like that.

The addiction is real... when a person is up against an addiction, they have gone past the point of choosing and then they need help getting un-addicted. Nonetheless, the addiction is the result of bad choices and is merely an addiction, not a disease.

Nor do I believe obesity is a disease. I probably qualify for being obese. It's poor choices on my part, not a "disease."

Answer 3

Well it sure in hell is a Addiction if its not then you can stop and go cold turkey and not drink for a whole year, and sure its a personal Choice but there consequences ...your liver....
If you ever been to a AA meeting you will hear about all the health problems they have had because of Alcohol

Besides Alcohol is a Poison which is why you feel the Buzz cuase your dying slowly ;)

And what is to much? well personally when a Person can not walk a straight line,or drive a car is to much in my opinion.

I guess basically but Drunk and clumsy would be to much....
I don't drink but I don't see it as a sin as long as in moderation.

Remember to much of anything will kill you .

Answer 4

Addiction is a disease. When you drink alone all the time, that's too much! When you drink and can't stop or control it, that's too much!

Edit:
(neweyes haha I'm not following you. But we seem to be answering the same questions.)