If a person has a couple drinks each day after work, and a couple more on the weekends. Would you consider them an alcoholic?
2007-07-13 17:34:54 · 14 answers · asked by KAT 4 in Food & Drink ➔ Beer, Wine & Spirits
i wouldn't call them an alcoholic.
but if it gets out of control then it's a problem
to me the only problem is when the alcohol runs out lol
2007-07-13 17:38:00 · answer #1 · answered by nataliexoxo 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No, I drink more than that and I don't consider myself an alcoholic. I don't think you have a problem unless it is actually causing you problems. If you aren't drunk or hungover for work, if it isn't making you emotionally distant from friends and family, if it doesn't cause you to neglect responsibilities and you aren't drunk around your kids, if you don't drink enough to cause serious health problems, if you don't use it to block out unpleasant emotions or memories then you don't have a problem.
Personally, I drink quite a lot but it's mostly with meals and as after dinner drinks. I rarely get drunk and that's only when I'm at a party or nightclub. Even though the number of standard drinks I get through in a week is pretty high I mostly drink responsibly, especially for a 19 year old. It would be ridiculous to call me an alcoholic. Before anyone says anything, I'm well above the legal drinking age for the country I live in.
2007-07-13 18:37:14 · answer #2 · answered by ********** 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Maybe.
can this person go a length of time with out a drink? Say 2 weeks?
Does this person drink to be drunk or is the drinking done in a social setting.
Has this person -ever- driven while intoxicated? Not asking if they've been caught. Has the act ever occurred?
These are questions a professional might respond to your question with. But I am not a professional. Try looking here
http://www.alcoholics-anonymous.org/?Media=PlayFlash
2007-07-13 18:08:10 · answer #3 · answered by Daniel E 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The real question is whether "a couple of drinks" is really just a couple of drinks. If this person can just have one or two and stop there's probably no problem but my guess is its not just a couple. Its multiple and there's a loss of control. If that's the case then help is needed.
2007-07-13 18:21:31 · answer #4 · answered by pitboss 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
no, i consider an alcoholic a person who drinks more than 5 drinks a day
2007-07-13 17:51:32 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Remember that your asking this to people who are reading questions about beer,wine and spirits so half of them are going to be alcoholic or into drinking themselves.
Umm to me a alcoholic sounds like a word for someone who misuses alcohol and is a angry drunk, but every each day is a fair bit, so yeah, id say it sounds to me like he/she is an alcoholic.
theres more to life then drinking.
2007-07-13 19:15:25 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I guess it depends on where you have the drinks. If alone at home definitely an alcoholic. If at a bar with friends and women I would call him lucky.
2007-07-13 19:02:06 · answer #7 · answered by Viajero 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I would if they felt like they couldn't go home without having the alcohol to drink.
2007-07-13 17:42:51 · answer #8 · answered by rec girl 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Not really. An alcoholic wouldn't be able to settle for just two drinks.
2007-07-14 09:18:36 · answer #9 · answered by randall flagg 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
no because a alcoholic stays at home and drink all day every day.
2007-07-17 17:34:21 · answer #10 · answered by hermanda z 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋