The "disease" of alcoholism.

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How to test if something is a disease.

1. Offer sufferer $1,000,000,000 to stop smoking, drinking, having cancer, eating to much, having diabetes etc for one week

2. If they accept it's not a disease!

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I'm an alcoholic, and I have to say that I don't think it is a disease, and for $1,000,000,000 I would immediately quit drinking for life.

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i don't know if i could. if it meant having no drinks ever, i don't even know if i'd do that deal. but if i could still have a couple drinks well obviously i'd try to do the deal, but after a couple it's hard to stop...and i can always tell myself i'm still in control and can stop, but then it gets to the point where i'm completely blackout and i wake up somewhere and my wallet is many dollars lighter, if my wallet is even still with me and i have no idea what happened after a certain point in the night.
in a couple days i'm going away for 6 months soon. i will have no access to alcohol. it should be interesting.