Pro-Choice.

Alcoholism and addiction the age old debate--disease or choice? I am whole heartedly for whatever choice allows you the pursuit of happiness. As for myself, I have decided that you can't have it both ways. That if recovery is a choice addiction to whatever must also be a choice. It cannot be a disease.

Hear me out on this. After all I have spent the last 20 years adhering to the disease concept. I bought the disease concept hook, line and sinker. I was provided with the definition of disease being, chronic, progressive, treatable and fatal. Chronic being on going, progressive being that it gets worse, treatable in that there is another way to live and fatal in that in the end it will kill us. I can make anything fit that definition, even life. Life is A) Chronic--I've been alive my entire life. B) Progressive--I'm a day older today than I was yesterday. C) Treatable--We live longer today than ever before in the history of man. D) Fatal--I've never known anyone to get out of this life alive.

Choice is a more difficult concept because it holds us accountable. I don't believe that it is any more or any less a moral issue than any other sin. Don't like the word, sin? Substitute any other unhealthy behavior in its place.

Pro-Choice.

I am now Pro-Choice.

I choose recovery.

K. A. Shaw