99 percent of the folks I know don't understand addiction.
Most active addicts dont and, best I can tell, many recovering addicts still don't understand it.
All the rationalization, lies, anger, happiness etc etc associated with addiction are at like the scab or the blood oozing from the injury.
The damage is deep in the brain within the central nervous system. Booze immediately alters, damages, the brain and causes folks to crave it. It also changes their ability to normally feel emotions. It is all about dopamine.
The damage is slow acting, insidious. It takes decades for folks to eventually go clinically insane from booze. But, there are tell tale signs that the addict is on the way to 5150 land.
The physical ramifications are more obvious.
I feel if more folks understood the science behind the results of drinking, they could better weather the suffering it takes to recover and maintain a non drinking life style.
Thanks.