Your logic is something else. It's pretty easy to beat up a straw man. I never said coffee leads to addiction. I said that the using of high levels of caffiene over periods of time leads to addiction. If you don't think caffiene is physically addictive, well, you're going to have to argue that with the scientists. They say it is. http://www.smithsonianmag.com/...
My experience with it says it is too. When I stopped using it I felt lousy for weeks and had major headaches besides. Those are the withdrawal symptoms of caffiene addiction.
Yes, there is a lot of coffee at 12 step meetings. There is also a whole lot of tobacco. What else do you expect from a bunch of addicts, than for them to move from one addictive behavior to another? True, caffiene isn't as destructive as heroin, meth, coke, opioids, etc... but it doesn't mean it isn't addictive. If addicts didn't think alike 12 step programs wouldn't work, and they do work. First time I went to a 12 step meeting I thought I was listening to people telling my story, rather than their own.
It has been proven time and time again that addicts think very much alike. They have problems they don't like to deal with so they like to alter their mental state rather than deal with the issues. Twelve step programs work because, if a person follows the steps, the addict deals with those issues that they have never dealt with before and thus get past their addictive behaviors.
The only way to beat addiction is to deal with the inner demons every addict has. As long as a person will not deal with those, they will never stop using the substances that are killing them and ruining their lives.
Here's a link to how addicts think. http://www.edrugrehab.com/how-...