Seems like a semantic technicality. A disease is a disease. An addiction is an addiction. The benefit in calling it a disease is in getting people to change the

Seems like a semantic technicality. A disease is a disease. An addiction is an addiction. The benefit in calling it a disease is in getting people to change their perspectives and precognitions about it - to see it as something at least partly out of the victim's control to be treated with compassion.