I will not fall like a fly,
That's the best thing we can wish for, but that's what those who end up someday and fall into AA are saying. [*] Not all happily or sadly !? Go talk with them or addictologist who are daily confronted with forts in reassuring speech and sometimes find themselves there
since I perfectly control my consumption.
This is also what smokers and all small drug users say, whatever they are!
An example: every time I went to India, I did not drink a drop and I never missed it.
This is a great example of what to do to check for addiction.
Except that! Except that light addictions are often only revealed in a particular context: family problems, professional, social and festive consumption, etc ... and which happen to be (illusory) responses to stress and that pass with it.
It turns out that I co-animated smoking cessation sessions that ranged from 3 cigarettes to 3 packs (or more) a day. And strangely it was the very little smokers who had trouble getting rid of it when heavy smokers gave up smoking at the first session. The biology of physiological or psychological life is something complex.
[*] for the record. I was, once, at an association meeting with large print warnings, here against tobacco, there against alcohol, further against other drugs and in a fun way (sic) each booth had the same design, but in one it called into question such and such a product and in the same design it was the other. I therefore pointed out the peculiarity of it to the people at the booth against alcohol and who smoked like fireplaces. Their response was: "
we are not going to deprive ourselves of everything, all the same!" and therein lies the key to all of these behaviors: the notion of
deprivation which leads to the substitution of a harmful product for another harmful product, most of the time without the people being really aware of it.
And once again I do not condemn!
I, too, have been a young con smoking and drinking to do as friends and yet around me, alcohol like tobacco made their ravages, but there is like a veil, cultural, which obstructs us and the senses and which we use to self-justify ourselves in our behaviors. At that time no alcohol-driving checks and driving could be drunk since the courts excused all fatal accidents under the pretext that the driver was under the alcohol and the murderer found himself snow-white on his way out. Obviously the judges and the cops are themselves consumers of this divine beverage.
"We make science with facts, like making a house with stones: but an accumulation of facts is no more a science than a pile of stones is a house" Henri Poincaré