Is Starbucks an addiction?

Starbucks, like Coca-Cola and Pepsi, is s purveyor of TWO (2) addictive substances with KNOWN long-term side-effects.

Caffeine is highly addictive but with relatively few negative side-effects, namely polyuria and it's an expensive habit.

Sugar (and honey and nectar and high fructose corn syrup) is another matter entirely. 1 full sugar drink at Starbucks is equivalent to 1-2 beers to the liver.

Sugar et. al. is 50% fructose, and fructose is frightening. It is the cause of the obesity pandemic, 95% of diabetes II, 98% of heart disease, 99% of non-alcoholic liver disease, most hypothyroidism and other metabolic disorders that kill.

The scarier prospect is that sugar et. al. IS IN NEARLY EVERY PROCESSED FOOD, not just Starbucks and Coke.

Food corporations like Coca-Cola, Pepsi and Starbucks 'pay off our government' (lobbying) to FDA approve of this surreptitious, intentional poisoning and look the other way.

How's that for ******-up?

No

Coffee is a drug & it is addicting.. I'm addicted, but not to Starbucks. When I was diagnosed per-diabetic the first thing I did was quit dumping sugar in my coffee.. That made a lot of difference.

I am not sure about Starbucks being an addiction, but caffeine surely is and there is caffeine in many drinks served at Starbucks. Maybe people prefer to get a "fix" for their caffeine addiction at Starbucks because of the sugar or because it is considered to be a qaulity place with qaulity products.