Originally Posted by jasonir

MikeHawk obviously drinking leads to mental problems known as addiction in certain people who are predisposed to it. Addiction is an entire different class of disease. The way alcoholics use the word, as in "I have a disease and I need help!" is a total cop-out and you know it. That is where my gripe is, that is all I wanted to say. I think we should leave the semantics to the linguists and Webster?s.