[joeysteele]

Well alcoholism is seen as a disease but while its the cause of many illnesses it is one of the cruelest and isolating addictions.
Alcohol is a very dangerous product indeed and for those who come to be reliant on it it brings devastation not only to them but to all their loved ones too.

Once the complications of alcoholism begin then health deteriorates fast,for the alcoholic there is not only the dealing with the illnesses,many life threatening too, but also the fact that becasue they are an alcoholic the dealing with likely relapses once abstaining from drinking it.
Peer pressure makes it so much harder for the alcoholic not to relapse,they cannot always just be around people who don't drink alcohol or understand their illness and problem.
There is always one clever person who will say to the alcoholic, one won't hurt you surely,or even spike their soft drink with alcohol.
The alcoholic who needs and asks for help should get all the support they need,the illnesses from the reliance on alcohol are awful and the fact they are alcoholics often has them segregated and looked down on from others,it is awful.

Many people say, alcoholics want to kill themselves so let them just drink themselves to death, that view could not be more wrong, the alcoholic starts drinking in order to cope with life, so they can go on living their lives in a fashion,then once reliant on it,they have no escape from it.

It is one of the cruelest of diseases and often the alcoholic and their loved ones pay a heavy price from it.More understanding and support is needed and less condemnation and judgement.