"Alcohol dependant" versus "Alcoholic"...what is the difference?!
Alcoholic is the the person that becomes dependent of alcohol,
An alcohol dependent is an alcoholic person.
Answers: Is the same thing.
Alcoholic is the the person that becomes dependent of alcohol,
An alcohol dependent is an alcoholic person.
I don't think there is a difference.
Alcoholics go to meetings!
... pretty much the same I would say
It is a distinction without a difference (which is slang for saying that if you call something something else, it may simply be another name for the same thing)..
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Depends
If you like to go out to partys, are you needing a drink to take off the edge? Or did you slam a 3 finger scotch down at the break of dawn that morning?
Have you ever held down a job, or did housekeeping, or lawn care? Or did it sprinkle this morning so you went to circle K and bought an 18 pack at the butcrack of dawn this morning?
Do you own a bunch of property, do maintenence and manage a small company? or did you sit on the side of the road with a little sign that read will work for coleslaw and cheap beer?
I guess I am guilty of alcohol dependancy,because after tending the garden and fixing the bathroom fixture and washing the dog and helping my mother with her housekeeping, Finally it got dark I got on the computer and I am drinking a cold beer. Wait shouldn't the question be are you PC dependant? LOLAre you answers dependant. Dangit I need a shrink. I better postpone retirement Maw. I gotta get cured!
Alcohol dependent sounds nicer.
The problem is the same. In order to go to AA meetings and get help, the acknowledgment that one is addicted to Alcohol is a necessary step in order to get help. Saying "I am John, and I am an alcoholic"..... and working the 12 steps, is being willing to get help in order to free oneself of dependence on Alcohol. Some are unable to do it and live in denial, often thinking that they can stop drinking, any time they want......... and are in fact not able to be free.
It's the same.
It's a medical term (I had to google).
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semantics.