Is someone who binge drinks an alcoholic? or are they two seperate things?

Question

Is it possible to control binge drinking? or do you have to stop drinking completely?

Answer 1

There is binge drinking and there's plateau drinking. A plateau drinker usually drinks daily, but they hit a certain state of innebriation and then the goal is to maintain that level. A binge drinker drinks for days or weeks at a time, but generally has no cap on their level of drunkenness.

Both types of drinking are alcoholic in nature, and of the two, binge drinking is usually the most destructive to the body.

No, it is not possible to control binge drinking, except for short periods of time. But on an ongoing basis, binging cannot be controlled. A binge drinker is an alcoholic and needs help in order to quit drinking.

The help of a doctor and a 12 step program is the route that is successful for most people. Detoxification in hospital or a detoxification facility is often necessary. As well, it may be advisable to enter a rehab program.

Note: This should be distinguished from a new drinker who goes on a few drinking binges primarily as a response to peer pressure or out of curiosity. Under these circumstances, 'binging' may very well be a relatively short-lived experiment in someone's development. But if this pattern starts to become fixed and ongoing, then dependance and addiction form.

Answer 2

Traditionally an Alcoholic was someone who is dependant on Alcohol.. ie cant fucntion without, or cant live without alcohol. Often this is seen as someone who is the homelsss alkie... but there are many people who are alcohlics without being homeless. If, for whatever reason you feel the need to get tanked up on a regualr basis then that maybe a symptom of alcoholism. Often Alcohoics are people who the world has left, or passed by, who feel they have no future and drink to drwn their sorrows. Gradually they loose itnerest in food, as most of their claorific intake comes from booze

Binge drinking is a relatively recently coined phrase, it snot the same as an alcoholic, but a binge drinker may becoem depenadant on Alcohol

if your drinking pattern is such that you cannot perform in social environment without alcohol, or you start drinking on your own or add what most people would regard as odd times (eg on first getting up.

so a crude way of determining if you are an alcoholic is to stop drinking... if you can happily avoid the hooch, especailly where you go and do things you would notmally (say meet friends in a pub, or at home and theydrink (and you dont) then Id say you are not an alcoholic, especailly if you are failrly relaxed about not drinking (ie you dont keep reminding yourself I must not drink)

If you start getting the cold sweats, the mental urgency that you MUST, MUST have a drink then mebbe you are

I dont agree that neccesarily the first balckout (or two/three what ever) is the indication of alcoholism.... it maybe if you dont care about the blackouts, or if you dont want to find out, or if they becoem frequent. All blackouts are a worrying sign.. they indicate a lack of sense when drinking, but if youdrink to excess frequently then Id stronlgy suggest you are showing signs...

Answer 3

The first line of the AA pamphlet states that if you think you're an alcoholic, the answer is "yes".
If you're questioning what alcohol is doing to your life, then it's time to make changes.
Only you know the answer.
Also, an alcoholic isn't someone who drinks and "parties" and brags about how much they drink like a badge of honour.
If you wake up and feel guilt.
If you go home and burst into tears or feel angry because you've let yourself "go" again.
If you feel like you need a drink to "smooth things out" or to get a bit of "courage".
If you just know you are drinking too much and are making enemies and causing your friends and family grief.
The above are all signs that the person is an alcoholic.
Have you ever been around those people who are fine when they're sober but when they get a few drinks in them, they turn maudlin and bring the whole evening down? If this is you, it is definitely time to admit there's a problem.
Good luck.

Answer 4

if someone binge drinks that doesnt necessarily mean they are an alcoholic, it depends on how frequent it is really. it is possible to control binge drinking, though not completely, binging is the worst form of drinking, it does so much damage. But it's upto the person who's drinking to make the decision, it could get out of hand so easily. I was an alcoholic and that started as just binging.
tell whoever it is to be careful.
good luck though!!

Answer 5

If you can't stop yourself from binge drinking then you could be classed as an alcoholic.
Of course its possible to control if you just think I won't and do it.
One weekend I might binge drink but then not have a drop for a couple of weeks so I wouldn't class that as being alcoholic.

Answer 6

1. Binge drinking is when you go out or drink a few times a month but you do it to excess and over a period of days. the body cannot handle this sort of drinking and will lead to hospitalisation,
whereas you can go out everynite of the week and have 1 or 2 you would be fine

2. Alcoholics on the other hand drink at strange times of the day like first thing in the morning and its usualy spirits and they do it every day to excess and to hide bottles all over the house.

so binge drinking and alcoholism are to differenet things all together

Answer 7

Binge drinking is where a person tries to drink as much alcohol in one session.

An alcoholic is a person who cannot live without alcohol. It controls their day. They wake up needing a drink, a bit like a smoker who needs their nicotine hit.

Answer 8

There is nothing big or clever about drinking in fact any fool can do it. I would suggest that binge drinkers are not as addicted as alcoholics but to continue binge drinking will have detrimental effects and can lead to alcoholism.

Answer 9

Alcoholism is a dependency on alcohol. Binge drinking is drinking to excess. You can be one, or the other or both but binge drinking does not make you an alcoholic.

Answer 10

a real Alcoholic is someone with an ailment whose body desires a consistent provide of alcohol with the intention to operate - if actually partly, even with the very undeniable truth that it really is doing it damage each of the time, while a binge drinker is only someone who once he/she starts off ingesting, would not understand at the same time as to renounce and maintains ingesting only for the sake of it, both to look sensible in the front of others or till they fall over, or grow to be violent or violently ill. This commonly occurs on the weekends at the same time as they don't ignore that the ends up of their moves will oftentimes be a lot less intense than if performed for the duration of operating days.