Dan, Have you ever had first hand experience with a close friend or relative that was inflicted with alcoholism? I've had the unfortunate experience of being close to several friends and family members that had this curse including a high school pal that drank himself to death at the ripe old age of 27. Yes there is treatment and some success but the majority die from this. You would think that as a matter of life and death they would just stop drinking but from what I have experienced it's not that simple. IMO your comparison to diabetes is apples and oranges. BTW,I'm not on board with suing the store or breweries, alcoholics will get their booze one way or another. I spent a lot of time fishing out of Neah Bay and saw the drunken race down that 14 mile road to get to Ray's ,I think that was the stores name, before it closed to get more booze. Some of those Makahs had been through every treatment program in the USA and still drank themselves to death.