Originally Posted by Lemond1985

It's a choice that runs in your family? Not being critical, I'm just having a difficult time reconciling those two statements. 1. not a disease, it's a choice, but 2.) it runs in my family.

Personally, I think there's a major genetic component or predisposition to alcoholism, without which the disease cannot occur in a given person, but a person's choices (to use alcohol or not to use it) determine whether these genes are able to express themselves or not.