Except when it comes to the people I love. I guess I need therapy, but getting this off my chest helps for now. I love my boyfriend, and if he asked me to marry him tomorrow, I would. We just had our three year anniversary. As I type this, he is outside with a couple of girls from work, whom he hates, I might add, taking bong hits.
Addiction makes some strange bedfellows.
And there is much more dependence on substances than drug warriors recognize, since they tend not to count the drugs they favor or that are most popular among those they know. Only ONE other person. This is not an accurate representation of the world at large. Partly the issue is your age. Excessive use of alcohol, along with illicit drug use, declines steadily as people mature.