are you classed an alcoholic if you drink beer every single night?!
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NO but why do you or anybody care about someones "classifications" anyway. If you drink heavily every night you just may well be an alky but otherwise no.
I think 'Alcoholic' is not a very useful term - 'problem drinker' might be better. Does this level of consumption interfere with the person's life ? Are they - unable to get up for work / have they damaged relationships / lost driving licence / got into fights / etc ?
If yes, they have a 'drink problem' and need to do something about it. The trouble is for many problem drinkers, the people around them face the stress & consequences of their drinking rather than the drinker themselves.
Experience of 30+ years of social work - dealing with people with alcohol problems and the consequences have kept me in a job !
Drinking beer every night is the first step to alcoholism, perhaps starting with one or two beer per day but it will increase later. Why is your friend drinking beer every night? To feel good or to get a little drunk? Is it non-alcoholic beer? - not. There are people who take a glass of wine every night or a small shot every night, it is considered good to your health, but drinking beer has not the same effect.
Well I am in the Army along with alot of my new made friends, we all drink a fair bit every night, so to us it is the normal doing. We drink however because there isn't anything else we are allowed to do after work hours really so that is what we do, we don't NEED the drinks and we are able to function through the day without it etc it's out of boredom that we drink.
If this family friend NEEDs to have a drink and feels as though it is hard to go the day without having one and they are having a large quantity every single day, then it could be pushin on the line of an alcoholic and should probably get them help before it really becomes an addiction and realy starts to fall into trouble.
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Do they NEED to drink, or just have a drink because they enjoy it
If they NEED to drink they are an alcoholic, otherwise they aren't
And ignore anyone who says it depends on how much they drink, you can have one drink a night and be an alcohlic, and you can have 3or 4 and not be one.
If he or she drinks and is drunk every night then yes .....but if they only drink 1 or 2 every night I would say that's not so bad ...but if they have to drink every day they could have more of a drinking problem and that could lead on to becoming a alcoholic later
..................Katie
I will sometimes drink every night for a few days straight to the point of intoxication but go it without just fine.
They may be an alcoholic, but if it isn't harming anyone but them, who the hell cares
An alcoholic is a person that drinking causes them problems but they still wont stop, if it is upsetting somebody or they cant really afford it or they lose their job or licence and they still continue then they have a problem.
Not necessarily. An alcoholic is someone that can't function without or needs that beer every day. If they can't control themselves then chances are, yes.
To me an alcoholic is someone who cannot function without a drink. If your friend just likes a drink each day but could not drink for a while if he/she wanted to, then they are not in my opinion.
Depends one or two isn't so bad but if theres a dependents on it like its a absolute must to drink every night no matter what then yeah to some level they have a problem
I don't think so. If there is any sort of addiction there, then at least she seems to be a functional alcoholic, only drinking at night.
Borderline but an alcoholic drinks and cannot get by without drink. They often have their first drink for breakfast and carry on
Take their beer away and see how they react.
One or two isn't bad, but a six pack or more might be pushing it
as long as you don't go over the limit 2 a night then you are ok
depends how many you drink each night x
No more than Jesus was for drinking wine with his dinner every night.