You would not understand the clients whose alcohol use wasn't causing problems. And so, although the overwhelming majority of alcohol users drink responsibly, your "scientific" photo of what the drug does would be distorted by the source of your sample of drinkers. Treatment providers get a similarly manipulated view of addicts: individuals who keep coming back aren't typical they're merely the ones who need the most assist.This is among lots of factors why I choose to see addiction as a knowing or developmental condition, instead of taking the classical disease view. If dependency actually were a main, chronic, progressive illness, natural recovery rates would not be so high and dependency would not have such a pronounced peak occurrence in youths.