When I was a child, I thought wine and beer were boring. Some people have to practice quite hard, to get into problems with booze and gambling. I dislike the c

When I was a child, I thought wine and beer were boring. Some people have to practice quite hard, to get into problems with booze and gambling. I dislike the custom of using the word "addiction" to describe gambling; but it certainly shares many features with chemical addictions, including the role of habit. I'm suggesting: for some people, being dependent on something is a goal in itself. Actually, I'm not suggesting; I'm sure it's so for my personal microsample, which is entirely based on chemical dependencies. But I believe it might also be true of various psychological dependencies, like gambling. I've just never known anyone that had a gambling dependency.