The only addiction I have is probably to alcohol. I've never allowed myself to get addicted to coffee (and while I have a soda stream machine at home, I don't have a coffee maker). I could see myself being a weed smoker, but then I've never for the life of it figured out how to buy drugs, so I never had the opportunity. I do partake in it sometimes with friends, but that doesn't happen often enough to warrant an addiction label. I don't enjoy the taste of cigarettes and get a nicotine flash too quickly, but then I do smoke every once in a while out of stupidity.
But alcohol is a problem, since it also is arguably the most dangerous drug and I've been known to become an idiot after drinking. I've made a lot of horrible decisions while drunk and have started or exacerbated many an argument while under the influence. In fact, all the fights I've had with people from Munich started when I was drunk. I don't drink on my own and since I don't get out very often I get drunk because of lowered tolerance. Over the years I've come to accept that I'm no longer sixteen year old Masterpiece who could drink a bottle of tequila and live to two the tale, but I still manage to shoot overboard most of the time I'm out drinking (which almost always happens when I'm out with friends).
I lose my inhibitions quickly and get very amused at things. I also lose a lot of self-control, and that will mean that, either the dam breaks and I get very very sad very quickly, or I will become a sensitive pissy idiot, ready to start a fight. In bad situations I get so angry that I turn literally deaf from rage, an in good moments, I have left venues so I can regain control over myself. Other times I haven't been that lucky.
Now that summer is here, my annual summer vacation at our summer house in Turkey is imminent. It means I'll get to be the driver of the family again and gives me a reason to practice abstinence. I always welcome this time. It's like I find an excuse not to drink that I don't have otherwise. And not drinking is absolutely no problem at all. What I find annoying are the friends and acquaintances that will always try to persuade you to drink otherwise. A common thing I hear in such instances is "oh one drink is okay". It really isn't in my opinion. Why do people actively want to make me risk my life so I can indulge in my only vice?
/rant. Sorry.