Originally Posted by
BHF 
[B][I]Although I don't spend much time worrying about it, I do believe that alcoholism is a physical and mental disease. I think the physical allergy (addiction) comes 1st once you (innocently) drink alcohol. When I did, I blacked out the 1st time and had a great time, and wanted to drink as much as I could get my hands on. Then eventually, I developed the mental obsession to drink in order to deal with life's situations, and eventually due to WD's.
But even if you look at it this way, you still have to ingest alcohol before the addiction occurs.
It is impossible for anyone to be addicted to a substance they have never put into their body.
It is of course possible to have a predisposition to become addicted. But that is not the same thing as actually being addicted.