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Originally Posted by kirklancaster
An alcoholic is someone whose drinking affects their health or their social behaviour for the worst, yet continues to drink.
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I disagree with that. As I said above, there are many very successful people (socially, career wise, etc.) who have a low-level dependancy on using alcohol at the end of the day to deal with stress. It's not always obvious. And like I said a lot of people go through their whole life like that with no issues. But these are the people who, on some level, do use alcohol as a "crutch" when it comes down to it, and if / when something "major" DOES happen in their life (a death, a family scandal, bankruptcy) they are at very high risk of simply increasing their alcohol intake to deal with the increased stress. I'd say they already have an alcohol dependancy. Just not one that's hugely affecting their life.
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