Are you an alcoholic?

[Churchill]

Someone who drinks every day has an alcohol problem, most people drink socially or to watch sport and don't need a drink every night.

What's the difference between "need" and "want"?

[Moscow Mule]

However the implication of someone drinking every day is that they cannot get through the day without it. This dependence and use of alcohol as a crutch is definitely a pointer towards alcoholism imho.

Someone who drinks every day has an alcohol problem, most people drink socially or to watch sport and don't need a drink every night.

Isn't that the crux of it though - you could have a drink every evening if you WANT to. It's when you NEED to that you have a problem.

[SallyAnne]

However the implication of someone drinking every day is that they cannot get through the day without it. This dependence and use of alcohol as a crutch is definitely a pointer towards alcoholism imho.

I drink Camomille tea every day - do I have a problem?

[Pickle2]

Someone who drinks every day has an alcohol problem, most people drink socially or to watch sport and don't need a drink every night.

Unless you want be sociable every night? Miserable fooker.

[Bagpuss]

What's the difference between "need" and "want"?

Nobody can want a drink every night of the week unless they have a problem. The only people I know who drink every day have a problem and they know it.

[Charles Foster Kane]

Someone who drinks every day has an alcohol problem, most people drink socially or to watch sport and don't need a drink every night.

Google 'french paradox' and do some reading. I'll help you out:

Research suggests that moderate drinkers are less likely to suffer heart attacks than are abstainers or heavy drinkers (see Alcohol and cardiovascular disease for details). Therefore, the alcohol in wine could be a factor in the French paradox.

[oracleslave]

do I have a problem?

Yes.

[SallyAnne]

Someone who drinks every day has an alcohol problem, most people drink socially or to watch sport and don't need a drink every night.

Some people like the taste of certain alcohol!!

If I had a massive glass of Baileys every day, it wouldn't be to get drunk, or to get a "fix"...it would be cause it's gorgeous!

Pretty much the same for certain red wines in my book too.

Other people have social lives IN heir houses....not everyone is a saddo like you for example. They have otherhalves, big families - a social network under their own roof. Do they all have problems if they have a glass of wine with each other over a meal for example?

[PAH]

Have you done the AA thing Jog on? I know it isn't for everyone.

I have an uncle who was an alcoholic and it very nearly destroyed his life (his wife was on the verge of leaving him, and he was also on his last warning before he'd get sacked from a very good job), but he went to AA and hasn't touched a drop since. Very inspirational.

As I didn't really start drinking much till away at university, he once told me that the late starters were more likely to turn into alcoholics. Don't know if it was bs to try to keep me from getting sucked into the drinking scene, but so far I think I've proved him wrong!

[Bagpuss]

Google 'french paradox' and do some reading. I'll help you out:

Research suggests that moderate drinkers are less likely to suffer heart attacks than are abstainers or heavy drinkers (see Alcohol and cardiovascular disease for details). Therefore, the alcohol in wine could be a factor in the French paradox.

Does it negate liver disease also?


FFS