According to the text, alcoholism is described in this book as an illness because:

a. the concept recognizes alcoholism as both a medical and social problem
b. the use of disease as a term is victim blaming
c. to avoid the notion of alcoholism as a brain disease
d. to increase the popularity of the book.


A

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