Alcohol gives a sort of soothing sensation which makes it easy for people to become addicted to them. Most of the alcohol addicts start out as social drinkers in the company of friends but gradually, they graduate from one bottle to a few more bottles till they get to the point where their appetite for the scotching taste of liquor drives their demand.
At first, people would see nothing wrong with your drinking habit and there are friends who may spite you for refusing a drink but when you are no longer in charge of your appetite, such friends are still the ones who would go behind your back to call you those ugly names such as; ‘addict’, ‘alcoholic’, ‘heavy drinker’ and so on.
