Is alcohol a choice or an addiction
As I have been reading the threads I constantly find people relapsing, and telling stories of their drinking pasts. I am starting to wonder if alcoholic behaviour is our choice as opposed to an addiction. There are many stories of people going 10 and 20 days sober then relapsing and then stopping and then relapsing, like a yo-yo back and forth. If we can stop for days between binges are we really addicted. For example , a heroin addict goes through intense cravings and withdrawals , they need their heroin or opiates or they get sick. I realise the chronic alcoholic is the same way, he will get sick as well. However many of the stories I am reading on SR, describe people who to me do not seem like they are addicted to alcohol but they have a problem with it. Any comments would be helpful to clarify this for me.