Do you think Alcohol is addictive?

wow you ****ing retards it's not addictive but people can become dependant on it, just like with everything else on this planet. You can become dependant on anything but that doesn't mean it's addictive.

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The substance itself may not be - for example, heroin addiction, you want the substance; in something like cannabis addiction, you want the feeling. It's that latter one that I think you can become addicted to alcohol with - you like feeling drunk, so you want it more.

Seeing as you seem to think there's a massive difference between something being addictive and people becoming dependant on certain substances, I don't see the point in trying to explain. If it's not addictive, explain alcoholics to me? There has to be some reason they're described as being addicted to alcohol, right?

Alcohol is habit forming and people can become dependant on alcohol (alcoholics) but it is not addictive. You smoke so you know what an addictive substance is, when you first started smoking you started to crave more tobacco (nicotine) and that is addiction; when your body tells you it needs something. Alcohol is not addictive because you don't crave more each day after you first drank any. If you use alcohol as a coping method (same goes for hot baths, food, masturbation, etc) you can become dependant on it and you feel like you crave it, but it itself isn't addictive.

Did you not even click my top link?

Alcohol is a physically addictive drug. The withdrawal symptoms for alcoholics are horrendous. Just because you yourself don't feel addicted to it doesn't make it non-addictive. I have a cigarette every once in a while, around once a week with my friends, and I'm not addicted to it. That doesn't mean cigarettes are not addictive, I just haven't smoked enough of them to feel that effect. The same with alcohol - if you drank every day you would soon feel the physical effects of addiction - craving it etc - because it's a physically addictive substance.

As I said again - the question you are asking is wrong. You want to ask is 'are you addicted to alcohol'.

I do drink, yes.

I'm not an addict, no, but I understand that it is a physically addictive drug and I seek to avoid having a drink every single day of the week.

Yet every Friday and Saturday night we go out and do it because we're addicted to that great feeling it gives you.

Explain to me how that isn't being addicted to something, even if it is only slight and breakable addition. Alcohol is both physically and mentally addictive, but for the vast amount of people who do it in moderation only mentally so.

Actually, alcohol is one of the few substances that you can become physically dependent on - along with heroin. Therefore your body needs the substance to function. If withdrawal isn't handled properly, the convulsions it will cause can kill you. Whereas with cocaine etc, it's a mental dependency.

I've noticed that alot of people on here speak about the addictiveness of alcohol and use it as a reason not to try it.

I'm not trying to say that people should drink or in no way am I trying to defend it against people that don't agree on it, i'm just curious.

I know obviously there are alcoholics but do you personally think its addictive or see it as just a good night out?

If you drink, would you say your addicted or not?

Alcohol is not a drug, it's a DRINK!

Alcohol is habit forming and people can become dependant on alcohol (alcoholics) but it is not addictive. You smoke so you know what an addictive substance is, when you first started smoking you started to crave more tobacco (nicotine) and that is addiction; when your body tells you it needs something. Alcohol is not addictive because you don't crave more each day after you first drank any. If you use alcohol as a coping method (same goes for hot baths, food, masturbation, etc) you can become dependant on it and you feel like you crave it, but it itself isn't addictive.

The **** are you on about? If someone consumes enough alcohol habitually, the brain down-regulates GABA A receptors. Not only does tolerance build up and a higher consumption of alcohol is required, but if you take that alcohol away, suddenly there isn't enough endogenous nervous transmission because there is an imbalance between NT:Receptors. Thus, you get withdrawal, excitotoxicity, seizures, brain damage etc etc. This is essentially the same physiology behind other addictions.

In fact, alcohol withdrawal can potentially be fatal if it's not managed properly.

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Alcohol is habit forming and people can become dependant on alcohol (alcoholics) but it is not addictive. You smoke so you know what an addictive substance is, when you first started smoking you started to crave more tobacco (nicotine) and that is addiction; when your body tells you it needs something. Alcohol is not addictive because you don't crave more each day after you first drank any. If you use alcohol as a coping method (same goes for hot baths, food, masturbation, etc) you can become dependant on it and you feel like you crave it, but it itself isn't addictive.