Individuals may have a preferred substance or behavior for addiction, though research on this concept is limited.

“it's also probably true that we each have different what what what are called drugs of choice so even with people who are you know poly substance users which by the way is more more common than not today people use a lot of different substances and behaviors they'll still tell you but you know my my preference is opioids or the thing I really want to do is smoke a cigarette or alcohol is my go-to um and interestingly there's very little science on the concept of drug of choice because I I looked pretty hard for that and I couldn't find very much”