Why is alcoholism considered a disease?!


Question: Why is alcoholism considered a disease!?
why!? i never really understood this!. alcoholism is, by official definition, "a physical and emotional addiction to alcohol"!. howis that a disease!? its an addiction!. does that mean all addictions are diseases!? everything you put into your body can change your mental state and change your brain!. addiction to chocolate has been proven to change your brain, so is that a disease as well!?
please explain!
my mom doesnt believe it is a disease!. she believes that its simply and addiction, that can be given up if one learns self control!.
so!.!.!.do you believe is it a disease, and if you believe it is a disease, why is it considered a disease!?Www@Answer-Health@Com


Answers:
Because some people are born with a certain gene, that makes them addictive to alcohol!. Thus, the disease!.

More and more research indicates that genes and chemical make-up may contribute and possibly trigger addictive behaviors!. A true alcoholic doesn't have the choice of whether or not to drink; it's a physical addiction!.


Alcoholism is now accepted as a disease!. It is a chronic and often progressive disease!. Like many diseases, it has symptoms that include a strong need to drink despite negative consequences, such as serious job or health problems!. Like many diseases, it has a generally predictable course and is influenced by both genetic (inherited) and environmental factors!.

Alcoholism is inherited!. Alcoholism tends to run in families and genetic factors partially explain this pattern!. The genes that influence the vulnerability to alcoholism are under investigation

Alcoholism is an environmental disease!. A person's environment, such as the influence of friends, stress levels, and the ease of obtaining alcohol, may influence their drinking and the development of alcoholism!. Still other factors, such as social support, may help to protect even high-risk people from alcohol problems!. Alcoholics tend to solve emotional problems by drinking!.

Alcohol addiction is also a physical disease, probably of an allergic nature, !. !. !. consider the main cause to be emotional maladjustment!. It is an atttempt on the part of the alcoholics to solve emotional problems by drinking!.

An alcoholic should be regarded as a sick person, just as one who is suffering from tuberculosis, cancer, heart disease, or other serious chronic disorder!. The body of the alcoholic is quite as abnormal as his mind!.There is a sense of powerlessness over alcohol, the surrender to hopelessness and desperation!. !.and a sense of out of self- control!.


The term alcoholic may trouble some, but we need not get into distinctions between alcohol abuse and alcohol dependence, problem drinking or chronic alcoholism!.

Drinkers who can stop drinking but who apparently cannot stay stopped!. They want to stop getting drunk!. They mean to
stop getting drunk!. They resolve to stop getting drunk!. But their experience tells them, time and time and time again, that they cannot stop getting drunk!. They are not looking here for scientific precision: but the goal is rather human experience


At times, scientists, clinicians and others debate whether or not to call alcoholism a



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