Original sentence: "  Regardless of official positions, from AA's inception most members have believed alcoholism to be a disease.AA generally avoids discussing the medical nature of alcoholism, but nonetheless, AA is regarded as a proponent and popularizer of the disease theory of alcoholism.More informally than not, AA's membership has helped popularize the disease concept of alcoholism, though AA officially has had no part in the development of such postulates which had appeared as early as the late eighteenth century.Though AA initially avoided the term "disease", in 1973 conference-approved literature categorically stated that "we had the disease of alcoholism
Edited sentence: "  Regardless of official positions of the group, individual AA members are fee to believe or disbelieve in the disease model of alcoholism as the wish." Alcoholics Anonymous can be likened to a group of physicians who might find a cure for cancer, and upon whose concerted work would depend the answer for sufferers of this disease." The word disease also appears only once in The Twelve and Twelve in a reference to the disease of cancer."From (resentment) stems all forms of spiritual disease, for we have been not only mentally and physically ill, we have been spiritually sick.AA avoids use of the term disease in its two main texts, Alcoholics Anonymous and Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions.AA generally avoids discussing the medical nature of alcoholism.In 1973, AA conference-approved literature stated "we had the disease of alcoholism.Nevertheless, some AA members are proponents of the disease theory of alcoholism.Once the spiritual malady is overcome, we straighten out mentally and physically.Some members of AA have helped popularize the disease concept of alcoholism, though officially AA has had no part in the development of such postulates, which appeared as early as the late eighteenth century.The word disease appears only once in The Big Book when acknowledging spiritual, mental, and physical components