Originally Posted by YVR Cockroach

I'm fortunate in that I don't "enjoy" (or even know I feel) the reputed buzz alcohol gives one so I don't have any (signs of) addictive tendencies to it. I can easily stop drinking and not miss it (did it for a few weeks earlier this year when my wife wanted to dry out after X'mas) and also tend to abstain when off to a country where the stuff is bad and/or expensive (e.g., Thailand and Malaysia). I primarily drink wine, and almost always dry ones so there's a lot of stuff, primarily cheap and underfermented that I'd rather not drink.even if there was no alternative. Even so, I find I enjoy sharing 1/2l of wine rather than a full bttle (3/4l - though 1/2 is too little to be enjoyable). Beer, hardly ever. I've only bought 2 cans this year and it was meant for a beef carbonade. One was drunk during a heat wave (nearly 40C day) and the other is still in the fridge (never used the beef for carbonade). Again, I drink good beers or not at all (have never drunk many of the U.S. - or even domestic - mass-market beers)..Spirits, hard ever too.

I do pity those who have a predisposition to developing a physiological addiction to alcohol (or say, worst things such as nicotine, opiods, etc. - none of which I've tried and not in a hurry to ever try). I can't fathom the pain they go through.