Help please! is addiction a disease or a choice?

Both: I think of it both as a disease and a choice. The addict's first use of an addictive substance after a sustained period of abstinence is usually indicative of a careless choice, but once that choice is made, often the disease process kicks in, and it becomes extremely difficult to not choose the next, and the next and the next hit/drink/etc.

Addiction = disease: It looks and often feels like voluntary behavior, but addiction is a disease. See the video, "pleasure unwoven, "available from www.Instituteforaddictionstudy.Com or watch it in segments on youtube. Explains why addiction is a brain disease & not a choice.

Alcoholism asDisease: In us, the concept of alcoholism as disease can be traced to 1784 essay by philadelphia physician & signator of the us declaration of independence, benjamin rush. Rush asserted that certain individuals are biologically/genetically predisposed 2 illness of alcoholism. Though widely accepted by the us public, disease concept has/has had its critics. A popular history/critique: http://amzn.To/13gcwi1.