“Voluntary behavior?’’ So all those years I was an active alcoholic was because I wanted to? Your ignorance on the nature of addiction is astounding.
““Voluntary behavior?’’ So all those years I was an active alcoholic was because I wanted to? Your ignorance on the nature of addiction is astounding.”
I think once you are addicted, there is the physical addiction component.
But your initial alcohol abuse, before any physical addiction, was surely voluntary. Unless someone was holding a gun to your head!
Did you eventually give it up voluntarily?
If so, then it was voluntary from beginning to end.
If you were forced to give it up, and are being forcibly kept away from access to it, then you have my sincere apologies for the bolded part above.
Full disclosure: For a few years I drank way too much, voluntarily; I quit voluntarily the day I found myself in the grocery trying to decide between food and alcohol.