I have a hard time relating to the folks who's alcohol addiction has been really severe, because most of the time I drink just enough to catch a buzz.
I hear ya DK.
I started that way too - I was always a pot head who drank just to enhance the buzz.
And I could probably go on for years without ever becoming severely physically addicted, etc.
You might. I dunno.
it's not like physical addiction is the only thing to worry about anyway but we all know that.
The point is even now looking back? I can't tell you when I crossed the line from drinking for a buzz to hard drinking, or binge drinking on the weekends to drinking throughout the day every day. It's still a blur to me...it's as incremental, but as relentless, as a glacier advancing (but quicker lol - it still seems like overnight to me).
Maybe it's not your destiny to progress like that, like I did.
Ok, maybe you're not even alcoholic - but I've read enough of your posts to know drinking and drugging are a worry to you and have been for a long time.
Here's hoping you're more self aware than I was, anyway, DK.
again, happy trails
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