I liked beer. And whiskey. I drank for a long time responsibily and worked my way up the corporate ladder to a pretty good job. My drinking just slowly increased. As stress increased my drinking did....I don't know if it's a disease or lack of will power, whichever it is I got bad. To make it brief I got REALLY bad. Lost my job and almost my family. Got sober for a while and Tried a few times to drink responsibly and failed each time. Started AA 16 years ago and have not drank since
Smoked weed on occasion for a few years after I quit drinking, but have not touched ANYTHING in 9 years. But weed never sent my down that road. It's not addictive in the same way. I could smoke weed and function in life. Climb the corporate ladder again
Any amount of alcohol would send me down that road....and opioids too. Anytime I had prescription pain meds I couldn't take them as prescribed. I didn't get hooked and buy more....but I definitely went through the script faster than prescribed.