Debate Quote by Eva Marie

Think about the stigma that is attached to the idea that alcoholism is a disease, an incurable illness, and you have it. That's a…

— Chris Prentiss

I am an alcoholic, as I said. And it is however we call it, a disease. That's an explanation, but not an excuse.

— Malachy McCourt

There are zillions of people who say that alcoholism is a disease, but not many of them believe it

— Mercedes McCambridge

I hate to be fatalistic about it, but alcoholism, it's just in your genes. We had some of it in my family, and it…

— Barry Hannah

There's no recovery from alcoholism, it is an incurable disease. And it also is a disease that tells you, you don't have a disease.

— Malachy McCourt

Alcoholism isn't a disease. It's a failure of self-image.

— Terence McKenna

“The most important finding of research into a genetic role for alcoholism is that there is no such thing as a gene for alcoholism,”…

— Gabor Maté

Alcoholism is the disease of more.

— Caroline Knapp

My alcoholism was an illness. It was in my DNA, my genes. Both my parents were addicts and I have an addictive personality.

— Tony Adams

But I'll tell you something: We had a big family discussion about it recently, my two sisters and I, and I pointed out that…

— Payne Stewart

Whether I or anyone else accepted the concept of alcoholism as a disease didn't matter; what mattered was that when treated as a disease,…

— Craig Ferguson

Maybe some folks are alcoholics and others are just voluntary drunks... maybe some have drinking problems, while others have problems enough to drink.

— George Jones