No, it’s a weakness or compulsion.
In very few cases is a person held down and liquor is poured down their throat and in very few cases is a person forced to chug down OxyContin.
Don’t eat or drink water for a couple of weeks and you’ll understand the difference between compulsion and compulsory.
When you will die eventually from your compulsion or die without your addiction of choice is irrelevent. You’re in addiction territory. Semantics are meaningless. Death makes no such distinctions.
March 3, 2019, 22 years 100% clean and sober. Almost died March 2, 1998. The distinction between compulsion and addiction is very subtle. Either, can lead to death. Peace!
I’ve generally found that people who believe that it’s all will power are the first to enter into denial and the last to enter rehab and the most likely to die. I’ve held their hand while we experienced all three together - denial,rehab (emergency room), death.
Best of luck my friends. On the other-side is contentment.
Keep coming back!
“No, it’s a weakness or compulsion.”
Perhaps at one time. When it’s a choice, it’s a choice. When it’s no longer a choice, it’s an addiction.
Look up “addiction,” it’s the loss of choice, that’s a fact Not “my” fact; THE fact. Your not accepting that fact doesn’t change it as a fact.
Perhaps you could plug your ears and yell. That should help prevent you learning facts that impune your ignorant self-righteousness, in your safe space on that high horse, in judgement of all the sinners. You and God, best buddies, partners in judgement.
I’ll bet you’re a lot of fun at parties.