but mental health professionals have agreed that it is a disease
not exactly true. AA, a christian organisation, was the first to decide that. healthh professionals tend to look at it as what it is, an addicition... just like ciggerettes, coffee, etc etc.
If you feel you NEED to drink, even if its one night a week. If you ache for it, your thinking about it... then yes, you are addicted. Most likely a psychological addiction, which is the hardest bit to beat... but its do-able. If you want to do something about it, and you wont let it esculate, that is