Indeed, there are definitely some who can't handle moderation. I've given up booze (or "the sauce") a few times for a month plus and have never noticed much difference. I've definitely not spent anything like $500K on it in the last 30 years. That would be $45 a day - I'd have to be drinking a lot of expensive wine or spirits every single day.

Still if only we'd all put a fraction of that into Bitcoin since 2009 we'd all be living like kings!

However, good for you - we all need to do what is good for us and makes us happy. Drinking for other reasons - all sign of something else going wrong be it addiction, depression or pissing your life away at the bottom of the barrell.