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In Reply.— Dr Borelli misses the point of both my July 8, 1988, JAMA editorial 1 and my reply to Mr Schaler on the Supreme Court case involving recovering alcoholic veterans ( Traynor v Turnag e, 108 S Ct 1372 [1988]). The Supreme Court did not rule on whether alcoholism is a disease, the topic that Mr Schaler pursues and whose views Dr Borelli apparently supports. Rather, the court found only that Congress had failed to pass clear-cut legislation instructing the Veterans Administration to put recovering alcoholic veterans on an equal footing with other disabled veterans in determining eligibility for a time extension to use their entitlement to education benefits. My editorial urged that Congress take this step by legislating that the Veterans Administration could no longer characterize alcoholism as willful misconduct in making this determination. Congress did enact such legislation only 6 months after the Supreme Court decision. As the Supreme
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