Are You Really "Powerless Over Alcohol"?

Alcoholics Anonymous wants you to think that you're powerless over alcohol. Indeed, the whole “powerless over alcohol” concept is a strange one. In what another area of our lives can we expect to overcome something when we consider ourselves completely powerless before it? There isn’t one. Curiously, if alcoholism IS a disease, it’s the only disease that goes into remission when we stop putting poison into our bodies..