It's both right? Alcohol is a dopaminergic[1] in all amounts. Your brain, to some degree, likes you drinking (which may be offset by side effects). A much small

It's both right? Alcohol is a dopaminergic[1] in all amounts. Your brain, to some degree, likes you drinking (which may be offset by side effects). A much smaller group of people genuinely enjoy the taste and physical experience of drinking alcohol. Non-alcoholic taste-matched substitutes are common. I strongly suspect that, if alcohol was banned, you would see a bigger market for taste-matched "mocktails" with the same sharp, chemical undertones. However, there's no market now because moderate drinkers can just get a drink and people who don't like they taste don't want them. [1] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6826820/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6826820/