ahhh, good question, tough answer to explain to someone...so alcoholism/addiction is an illness and it needs to be treated. addicts self medicatethe illness with drugs or alcohol, so when the substance is gone the illness remains and still needs treatment, AA offers one form of treatment for alcoholism.
thats the only question!!!!
Being predisposed to it and actually being one is completely different. There are lots of people who know they are predisposed and don't drinkbecause they know it will be harmful. But predisposition doesn't apply to the drug of choice, it applies more to the potential of being an addict. It'scommon (and this addressed by Dr. Drew on Celeb Rehab, and such) that many addicts will trade one addiction for another, and consider themselves cured, orhaving avoided the supposed predisposed condition. There are people who won't drink, but will smoke weed twice a day, and then parade around as ifthey've beaten some addiction that's been in their family's history. Guess what, you're an addict, because you are predisposed to being anaddict, above being an alcoholic.
