If you are an alcoholic, alcohol becomes the most important thing in your life. You stop eating. You begin to neglect the important things in your life and the important people (job, family, spouse, etc.). You begin to push the people who care about you away and when they try to tell you that you need to stop drinking, you will argue with them and hurt them and accuse them of being mean to you, not caring about you, or neglecting you. You will begin to blame the people around you for your drinking. You begin to make up excuses for why you drink. You attempt to get people to feel sorry for you even though you are the one destroying everything around you. You begin to lie and then you keep lying to cover up those lies until you become a pathalogical liar. Eventually, nobody wants to be around you and no one believes anything that you say.
If you do not drink you cannot be an alcoholic. The term "alcoholic" refers to one who cannot control his/her drinking habits. By keeping yourself from drinking, you refrain from becoming and alcoholic.
Peter G. Booth has written: 'Drink, drinking and drinking problems' -- subject(s): Physiological effect, Alcoholic beverages
Alcoholic drinking is not social drinking.
Get the alcoholic to stop drinking.
outlawed the making or drinking of alcoholic beverages
An alcoholic will become dependent on alcohol to get through daily life. Signs that a person is an alcoholic could be constant over drinking of alcohol, dependency to get through stress, anger problems, and decreased health and hygiene.
There is no set number of drinks that makes you an alcoholic. You're an alcoholic when you become addicted to alcohol--when you're dependent upon the drinks to get you through. If you continue drinking even though you know there will be serious consequences to your health, if you feel you can't stop, if you're hiding your drinking, if it's becoming a problem in your personal life...you're an alcoholic. If that doesn't answer it for you, try the Alcoholics Anonymous website (www.aa.org). It has lots of information.
She is not a mad alcoholic. May be drinking in parties..
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A dry alcoholic is an alcololic who has stopped drinking, an alcoholic who has been 'dry' for a period of time.
Drinking palm wine in moderation is associated with better health and greater longevity than is abstaining from it or abusing it. The primary beneficial effect from drinking alcoholic beverages is from the alcohol they contain.
A person who has lost control over drinking is an alcoholic, a condition that normally takes outside assistance to overcome. If a person's drinking is controlling them and their life, they are an alcoholic.