I cannot compare poker with drugs. If I have never taken drugs, have not smoked and I have no craving for alcohol. Once I felt that poker takes up too much space in my head. I paused and after I started playing less. Now I can live without poker. Sometimes I play in the evening, but I want easy money, and the process of the game is very interesting to me.
And where else can you meet at the same table completely different people, with different mentality and worldview, who are in different parts of the world and at the same time together. It fascinates me.