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say, and they are right in a way. Because drugs make you weak, stupid and criminal. But many, perhaps even most, in our society think addiction is not a disease. This is understandable because most people don’t suffer from it, and cannot begin to understand that what appears to be a behavior of choice is to the sufferer no choice at all. , And the addict is as often as not in a state of denial about his own dilemma.
As a recovering alcoholic with 23 years of sobriety, I think about addiction a lot. Booze has always been with us, will most likely always be with us, and is an engrained part of our general culture. So be it. But one out of every ten drinkers drinks alcoholically, is addicted to the active drug ethanol, and suffers from a disease that is chronic, progressive, and fatal. And that one tenth of drinkers consumes over 50 percent of the booze that is sold. I’m not making this up, y’all.
Granted, you will never see “alcoholism” listed as a cause of death in an obituary. It comes in the form of kidney failure, liver disease, heart attack, automobile accident, stroke or suicide. But the family knows.
The booze industry spends over two billion dollars a year advertising their
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