# Is Alcoholism a disease?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-alcoholism-a-disease/310464>\
**Category:** Great Debates\
**Created:** [June 30, 2005, 3:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-alcoholism-a-disease/310464 "2005-06-30T03:06:39Z")\
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**Author:** ![David\_Simmons](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/9de053/32.png) [@David\_Simmons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/David_Simmons)\
**Post date:** [July 5, 2005, 5:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-alcoholism-a-disease/310464/81 "2005-07-05T17:39:16Z")

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> [@Renob](#):
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> People drink because they find pleasure in it.

Sure, the person who drinks to the point of losing the job, the family, the home and winds up freezing to death on a park bench is having a high old time.

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