Hi, I think there are many reasons as to why people begin to drink/drug the way they do.
I used to try to rationalise all of the varying reasons as to why I drank like I did.
But now I accept myself as an alcoholic I view my environmental factors of being only a factor in the rate at which I reached acceptance of my alcoholism.
I suppose I believe that my mind was born alcoholic in the sense that I experience a different reaction to most when I take a drink. I just got to have more and there ain;t really any other way. There never really was from day 1, it just took me 9 years to reach that acceptance.
I believe that regardless of any environmental factors I would have still turned out alcoholic as I would have eventually taken a drink so I would have been hooked from day 1. it may have just taken many, many more years to get where i got.
Regardless anyway I live in the present reality of what is and that is that I'm a recovering alcoholic/addict.
peace and love