The "disease" of alcoholism.

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Alcoholism has a biological component. In that way it is a disease. Though it is one you can self-cure using will power, unlike diabetes for instance.

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What kind of diabetes? I was actually going to use diabetes as my counter-example, in case anyone disagreed with my previous point.

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The kind where nothing you do will make it go away. That is what I meant.