Me too. Alcoholism and drug addiction cause all sorts of physical problems but that is not equivalent to getting pneumonia.
Pneumonia is a disease. Pancreatic cancer is a disease. Multiple Sclerosis is a disease. We have Lou Gehrig’s disease. There’s polio.
It’s insulting to act as though someone struggling with Huntington’s is no different than a junkie.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TCxfIoD1MXg&t=386s
Norm McDonald on having the “Booze Disease”. (8 minutes)
“So my friend Richie has alcoholism, which as a disease is the best one to get if you ask me.”