The Choice of Addiction & Abuse
I've been thinking about how much control each of us really has over our drinking...It occured to me that I don't have any chemical dependency on alcohol or drugs (any more), so if I've decided to quit and then drink or use, isn't that a decision made by me? It might be a bad decision based on emotion or lack of forethought, but isn't it a decision all the same? People use drink and drugs to mask some other problem, but isn't that still a choice even if it's a choice made from desperation? If you're no longer chemically dependent on something is it really an addiction? Is it not just a choice to feel good instead of bad despite the consequences to you and others? And if so, doesn't that just make you a selfish ******* who can't do the right thing? I include myself in that, it's not aimed at anyone in particular.
I believe there is more choice in addiction/habit/dependency than some would care to admit.