1. The best way to overcome addiction is to rely on your own willpower.
2. People can stop using drugs or alcohol as they develop other ways to deal with life.
3. Addiction has more to do with the environments people live in than with the drugs they are addicted to.
4. People often outgrow alcohol/drug addiction.
5. People who are addicted to alcohol/drugs can learn to moderate their drinking or cut down on their drug use.
6. People become addicted to alcohol/drugs when life is going badly for them.
7. Alcohol/drug addicts often solve their addiction problems without outside help.
8. You have to rely on yourself to overcome alcohol/drug addiction.
9. Alcohol/drug addiction is often a way of life people rely on to cope with, or avoid coping with, the world.

If you find these propositions ludicrous or outrageous, you are addicted to the disease model. I hope to persuade you to addict yourself to the truth. Switching addictions is rarely easy or painless. It takes the exercise of willpower, but you do have plenty of that.