addiction a disease or moral deficiency
The Disease Model of Addiction. It wasnât until 1935 when Robert Smith and Bill Wilson co-founded Alcoholics Anonymous (AA) that the paradigm shifted and alcoholism went from being viewed as a moral deficiency to a medical illness.s a result, alcoholics were, and in large part remain, the objects of scorn and derision.The Disease Model of AddictionIt wasnât until 1935 when Robert Smith and Bill Wilson co-founded Alcoholics Anonymous (AA) that the paradigm shifted and alcoholism went from being viewed as a moral deficiency to a medical illness.