-- Posted by snowcone200 at 1:11 am on Jan. 7, 2009 On T.V an actor called it a disease, I dunno about that a lot of ppl use it to feel good and to drown problems. I can see depresision as one, but that like saying cutting is a disease/illness. -- Posted by roflfuckyou at 1:13 am on Jan. 7, 2009 By medical definition it is a disease. It is a complusion to drink alcohol, not just doing it to drown emotions or anything. When you reach the dipsomania stage you are fixated with alcohol and CANNOT bare to go a day without drinking - you feel like it's utterly impossible, and you fail to see the negative effects it can have on you. -- Posted by 0h h3ll n0 at 1:14 am on Jan. 7, 2009 Ehh. I don't look at it as a disease but I suppose it kind of is. -- Posted by snowcone200 at 1:17 am on Jan. 7, 2009 meh, It felt un-nerving him calling it one. I mean I wish all it took was willpower or a clinic for detox for me to get rid of cystic fibrosis. -- Posted by imSOFAKINGrad at 1:18 am on Jan. 7, 2009 Quote: from 0h h3ll n0 at 1:14 am on Jan. 7, 2009 Ehh. I don't look at it as a disease but I suppose it kind of is. its not. gtfo. cancer is a disease, alcohol is not. -- Posted by snowcone200 at 1:20 am on Jan. 7, 2009 btw i see alcoholism as just an addiction like drugs rather then a illness or dosease -- Posted by 0h h3ll n0 at 1:20 am on Jan. 7, 2009 Quote: from kmksrhdgaf420 at 9:18 am on Jan. 7, 2009 Quote: from 0h h3ll n0 at 1:14 am on Jan. 7, 2009 Ehh. I don't look at it as a disease but I suppose it kind of is. its not. gtfo. cancer is a disease, alcohol is not. As I said, I don't think of it that way but for someone to be that addicted to something surely there is something mentally wrong with them. -- Posted by imSOFAKINGrad at 1:22 am on Jan. 7, 2009 Quote: from 0h h3ll n0 at 1:20 am on Jan. 7, 2009 Quote: from kmksrhdgaf420 at 9:18 am on Jan. 7, 2009 Quote: from 0h h3ll n0 at 1:14 am on Jan. 7, 2009 Ehh. I don't look at it as a disease but I suppose it kind of is.    its not. gtfo.    cancer is a disease, alcohol is not.     As I said, I don't think of it that way but for someone to be that addicted to something surely there is something mentally wrong with them. it means they have an addictive personality. not a disease -- Posted by lestat1990 at 1:22 am on Jan. 7, 2009 alcoholism is a disease. its hereditary. its genetic. passed down from parent to child -- Posted by DopeSickGirl at 1:24 am on Jan. 7, 2009 no, in narcotics anonymous we call addiction (and alcholosim) the disease. its not a literal term its our creative way of not calling it addiction every five seconds. and it is a disease if you think about it. it takes time out of your life, and makes you feel sick. -- Posted by lestat1990 at 1:28 am on Jan. 7, 2009 Quote: from roflfuckyou at 1:13 am on Jan. 7, 2009 By medical definition it is a disease. It is a complusion to drink alcohol, not just doing it to drown emotions or anything. When you reach the dipsomania stage you are fixated with alcohol and CANNOT bare to go a day without drinking - you feel like it's utterly impossible, and you fail to see the negative effects it can have on you. you may be the smartest person here actually going by definition and fact rather than opinion -- Posted by LoveKay at 1:31 am on Jan. 7, 2009 I would not call alcoholism a disease, but I would most definitely call it an addiction. -- Posted by roflfuckyou at 1:31 am on Jan. 7, 2009 Quote: from kmksrhdgaf420 at 8:18 pm on Jan. 7, 2009 Quote: from 0h h3ll n0 at 1:14 am on Jan. 7, 2009 Ehh. I don't look at it as a disease but I suppose it kind of is. its not. gtfo. cancer is a disease, alcohol is not. AlcoholISM is a disease. -- Posted by snowcone200 at 1:34 am on Jan. 7, 2009 The opinion of society is often what dictates what currently is fact and what isn't. You know like the earth is flat deal. By definition maybe, but I wouldn't like to agree it is. -- Posted by snowcone200 at 1:40 am on Jan. 7, 2009 My grandfathet likes to drink and so does my dad. But I don't, and they drink sparingly no alcoholics. -- Posted by lestat1990 at 1:40 am on Jan. 7, 2009 Quote: from snowcone200 at 1:34 am on Jan. 7, 2009 The opinion of society is often what dictates what currently is fact and what isn't. You know like the earth is flat deal. By definition maybe, but I wouldn't like to agree it is. but the earth being flat was never a fact. it was just a belief. but the definition applies to alcoholism. so you'll have to change the definition of disease before alcoholism wouldn't be considered a disease -- Posted by bosss at 3:57 am on Jan. 7, 2009 alcoholism is absolutely a disease whether you want to believe it or not -- Posted by Xusk at 10:03 am on Jan. 10, 2009 Quote: from snowcone200 at 1:11 am on Jan. 7, 2009 On T.V an actor called it a disease Well there you go, but no, anyone who wants to say otherwise needs there motives questioned. If addiction was a disease, then I would have several diseases as would most if not all the population on earth. "Just stop!" "No man, I have a disease!" *There's a great South Park episode based on this. -- Posted by snowcone200 at 10:16 am on Jan. 10, 2009 lol there is? hah -- Posted by Xusk at 10:19 am on Jan. 10, 2009 Quote: from snowcone200 at 10:16 am on Jan. 10, 2009 lol there is? hah "Bloody Mary" episode 914. -- Posted by Rainbow Blight at 1:50 pm on Jan. 10, 2009 Isn't substance dependency/addiction itself classified as a mental disorder just like depression or anxiety disorder in the DSM-IV*?  I haven't checked in awhile, but hospital charts and files that I've looked at behind the staffs' desks while everyone was asleep, primarily out of boredom, seemed to indicate that it is classified as one. *Actually I just checked a DSM-IV just now and it's classified as a disease under 'chemical dependency disorder.' Keep in mind though that this is not *necessarily* my opinion; it is just what the DSM-IV says (but it's not like the DSM-IV is some kind of omniscient Bible).