For me, I know that I'm the one that was pouring the endless alcoholic liquids down my throat, no one else was.. Although there were other underlying circumstances to why I drank, I would have to say that atleast for me, I indeed caused my own alcoholism.. I don't believe that it is hereditary, but I do believe there are influances that helped me turn to alcohol, but again I am the one that decided to go overboard.. Why I couldn't handle it, and why when I try to just have one beer or one drink I continue in to a whole fifth or more of liquor is beyond me.. But no one else caused it but me, I wasn't told to drink to excess, to become addicted, so to me atleast I can't see any other thing besides myself deciding to drink in the first place to become the cause.