People with alcoholism can’t control their drinking.
Myth.
See the book “Heavy Drinkin, the Myth of Alcholism as a Disease” for the case studies.
“People with alcoholism can’t control their drinking.”
I disagree.
I think it is unusually hard to control it.
However, there is no machine forcing the hand to grip the bottle, take it to their lips, swallow. Will is involved.
As opposed to the person with a migraine; they can’t will it away. A person with kidney failure can’t make his kidneys work by making a decision, however difficult. A person with IBS can’t make their bowels function properly.
An alcoholic is not the moral equivalent to a man with pancreatic cancer. The man with pancreatic cancer REALLY has a disease that he himself can not stop from advancing. An alcoholic is capable of not drinking again. It would be way harder for him not to drink today than for me; I grant you that. Still, it can be done.
So there is a big difference.