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Message: <blockquote data-quote="cheesey" data-source="post: 222306" data-attributes="member: 419">I never thought alcoholism was a "disease". Yes, there are people that become addicted to it. I would call them "alcohol addicts", not that they have a "disease". I mean, do we call drug addicts "people with a disease?" Not that i know of.....we call them addicts.But today, if someone makes some poor choices and drive drunk, they cry "I have a disease" and get away with it, because they are "sick". I see people doing that all the time........if they go to work drunk, and get caught, they cry "i have a disease" and keep their jobs. They might not really be alcoholics, they just liked to do it and they got caught. Then they use the "i'm sick" as a way of getting out of having to pay for their poor choices.Yes, there are real people that need real help.............the "i'm an alcoholic" cry is just used WAY to often to get away with making poor choices in my view. It's an easy out to not have to pay the consequences for your actions. Which is way to prevalent in today's world.</blockquote>

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