My position was always that I liked drinking, that I could put up with not drinking, but that having just one or two was intolerable. I would either drink or abstain. I have also heard it time and again from drinkers too numerous to mention. It is an extremely common view shared by a large proportion of drinkers the world over. But if we look at this a little closer it should give us cause for concern. What we are really saying is, ‘when I start taking this chemical substance I cannot (or at least find it difficult or problematic) to stop’. What is this if not addiction? And what is an
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