Can an alcoholic ever practice 'controlled drinking'?

Question

Any information/advice on how an alcoholic can go about 'controlled drinking' would be very much welcome, thanks :)

Answer 1

Friend, it is impossible! Any type of alchool is like poison for us.
If i will drink one drop, i wil drink one truck of alcoholic drink.
It is out control! It is a f* disease!
I am being sincere.
I hope to be asked your ask.
embraces.

Answer 2

Alcoholism is a sort of addiction where it controls your life. You're not able to function properly on a normal day to day basis. So controlled drinking would kind of be defeating the purpose.

Answer 3

You and me recognize it has develop into risky when we commence being comfortable to enable the misery leads our lives . at the same time as my melancholy were more desirable obtrusive, i tried to counter it.First, it worked, yet after a lengthy time period each and every thing went decrease back to commence. interior the initiating, I continually inspired myself, yet now, i do not even hassle to finish that anymore. "No buddy to loaf round with? fantastic, I watch television. undesirable performance at classification? what's the great deal, ignoring them probable makes my existence a lot less complicated" the problem is, I has used short-time period ideas to remedy a lengthy-time period problem with out understanding that my condition can worsen if I keep doing so. all of us recognize we are trapped in this maze, yet we received't locate the way out. unhappy isn't it?

Answer 4

I don't believe that they can whilst they are an alcoholic. The urge for a drink will be too much or the withdrawl symptoms will be too strong to resist.

Answer 5

Anybody that is alcoholic was to face the fact that for them there is no such thing as 'controlled drinking'. I know from experience.

Answer 6

I believe with time that 'controlled drinking' will once again turn into 'uncontrolled drinking'. Stay safe.

Answer 7

no its the same as smoking it is addictive once you take a drink you will want more and more and before you know it you will be back at square one its just the same for a smoker if you have quit good for you keep it up

Answer 8

All alcoholism programs have zero tolerance for drinking. If you have even one sip...you're considered, in some respects, to have failed and have to start again.

Answer 9

No such thing as Controlled Drinking to an Alcoholic.

Don't kid yourself.

Answer 10

This will depend upon the type of alcoholic. Kessel and Walton's classic study (Alcoholism, Penguin, London, date not available), identified several types of alcoholic, including the 'regular and restrained' alcoholic - the type of person who can be found in the same pub every night, who probably drinks 6 or 7 pints of bitter beer or lager each evening, and who does not exhibit manifest problems such as liver disease, or socio-economic consequences, or peripheral health problems such as the 'shakes' or peripheral neuritis (caused by thiamine deficiency as a result of excessive alcohol consumption and perepheral neglect of nutrition).

Other alcoholic types mentioned included the 'loss of control' drinker, who would regularly be totally abstinent for weeks or months, and would then lunge into a binge session in which he would drink until his funds were exhausted or until unconsciuosness supervened.

It needs to be realised that every regular and/or heavy drinker is not necessarily an alcoholic. The nanny state has extended the range of alcoholism to include everyone who does not conform to said states' system of mensuration, that allows men 14 pints of beer per week, irrespective of their physical constitution, what kind of work they do, or the social norms within their particular group or sub-class. For example, thirty years ago, my employer gave me an allowance to purchase ten pints of beer per night. This was because I was employed to shift meat, that would be dumped on my back from a railway wagon, and I would have to run with a side of beef on my back to whatever tradesman the beef had been sold to, and jerk the meat from my back on to his barrow using my shoulders. 10 runs with 100 kg per run was enough - it was then a case of nipping out to the pub, downing 2 pints in five minutes, and then back to the grind. (A pub adjacent to the railway depot where I worked had a special licence to stay open all night for railwaymen, butchers and post-office workers). We would be finished with the meat by about 04.00, and it was back to the pub for a cooked breakfast of eggs, bacon, sausages, fried mushrooms, saute potatoes, black pudding, fried tomatoes, and, sometimes, if the butchers were generous, grilled steak - and more beer (I had to buy this beer myself, as I was off duty!). One could simply not do that kind of work on a litre of orange juice and some muesli.

Ultimately, the real alcoholic hates the stuff. The balance is whether the person controls the alcohol, or the alcohol controls the person. If alcohol controls the person, then the person will not be able to function within society and will lose their job, wife, family, friends, appearance and, ultimately, their health. The real alcoholic, after going through treatment, will not want to drink alcohol again. The pseudo-alcoholic (a term of my own creation, to describe the 'alcoholic' so labelled (see Erving Goffman on labelling in society) by the controllers of society is not actually an alcoholic, inasmuch as he is not dependent upon the drug to enable him to function in everyday life. He is not using alcohol to enable him to carry out everyday activities, such as going to work, getting food, and looking after his appearance and clothing.

If your "alcoholic" can drink a few pints, go to work, eat decent food, and generally function within the norms of the society in which you operate, then he is operating 'controlled drinking'. If the drinking has any effects on his ability to operate a normal life as I have defined, then he has problems.

Finally, the ultimate arbiter is advice from your medical practioner. Anything I say is my personal opinion. Alcoholism is recognised as a disease, and is thus within the realm of the medical profession to diagnose, treat, and adjudicate thereon.