I've been a heavy drinker for about 20 years now. I'm an intelligent and pretty productive person and have done pretty well for myself, but alcohol is hands down the most enjoyable thing in my life.

A few weeks ago drunk I texted a friend something like "I'm convinced that alcoholism has more to do with blood sugar than anything else". Seems stupid, but I actually think there's something to it.

I've read a few books on alcohol, the most interesting was "Under the Influence: A Guide to the Myths and Realities of Alcoholism
by James R. Milam". He postulates that alcoholism is mainly due to genetic and physiological factors rather than a mere weakness in character. He even talks about rats that are genetically disposed to like alcohol and other rats that naturally hate it. They can take an enzyme from the alcohol loving rats and inject it into the brains of the alcohol hating rats and they will suddenly begin to love alcohol and compulsively consume it.

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