How do you know you are an alcoholic?

Question

My husband doesn't drink every night but when he does he drinks to get drunk, usually a twelve pack in an evening. He doesn't drive, doesn't get mean but yet I feel uncomfortable when I see him pop open the first beer. He goes to work everyday. Is it me or him that has a problem?

Answer 1

He might have a problem coming. Does he get defensive when you bring it up to him? That would be the first way to tell if there's a problem lurking.

Does he have any other addictions, cigarettes (nicotine) or coffee (caffine) ? If yes, than he's prone to getting addicted to more things.

Answer 2

That would be him. If he drinks one or a six pack that is alright with me but if you are drinking every night to where you are drinking to get drunk because you cant deal with the things that happen in your everyday life yes that means he has a problem.

Answer 3

My husband drinks 4 to 6 beers every night before coming to bed. He waits until the children and I go to bed, then he stays up for hours to what he calls unwinding. He drinks his beer and watches tv.

Answer 4

Alcoholism is the consumption of or preoccupation with alcoholic beverages to the extent that this behavior interferes with the alcoholic's normal personal, family, social, or work life. The chronic alcohol consumption caused by alcoholism can result in psychological and physiological disorders. Estimates of the economic costs of alcohol abuse, collected by the World Health Organization, vary from one to six per cent of a country's GDP [1]. One Australian estimate pegged alcohol's social costs at 24 per cent of all drug abuse costs; a similar Canadian study concluded alcohol's share was 41 per cent[2].

While alcohol use is required to trigger alcoholism, the biological mechanism of alcoholism is uncertain. For most people, moderate alcohol consumption poses little danger of addiction. Other factors must exist for alcohol use to develop into alcoholism. These factors may include a person's social environment, emotional health and genetic predisposition. In addition, an alcoholic can develop multiple forms of addiction to alcohol simultaneously such as psychological, metabolic, and neurochemical. Each type of addiction must be treated individually for an alcoholic to fully recover.

hope it helps

Answer 5

The easiest way to know is, if you go to a bar and buy a drink and you sit there and cup it in your hand when youre talking to someone, you sort of hold it, protect it, nurture it like it's an appendage.....you sit there and keep your hand on the glass even when you're not drinking it: you're probably an alcoholic.

Answer 6

He is an alcoholic. There is an AA group for family of the Alkie, check it out. Be gentle but firm.....Try to find interesting things to do that will keep his mind off the booze. He needs your help.

Answer 7

My ex had black outs and threw up hot water in the mornings and he only drank on week ends and held down a job,

Answer 8

It's different things to different people, but even if he is, you can't control what another person does. You accept it or you don't, but you can't change them.