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re: Would a six-pack every night be considered an alcoholic?
Posted on 12/31/22 at 12:09 am to Handsome Pete
Posted on 12/31/22 at 12:09 am to Handsome Pete
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Handsome Pete
Unless you're downing it like a frat boy, and I doubt that's the case in OP's context, it's going to take you much longer to drink a six pack as opposed to 3 shots. When you have three shots, it's usually within less than 30 minutes. 6 beers on the other hand takes around 2-4 hours. Your body begins processing the beer at 5-10% alcohol and continues at that rate, but the liquor is processed essentially at the same time.
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Posted on 12/31/22 at 12:30 am to 308
I'm a recovering alcoholic who has been sober for 3+ years and in my experience and the experience of all the other alcoholics I know if you can usually stop at 6 you aren't an alcoholic. Tbh I don't know many ppl who drink 6 every day without drinking more but I suppose it's possible
All THAT said, alcoholic or not drinking 6 beers every night would almost certainly be very bad for your health
All THAT said, alcoholic or not drinking 6 beers every night would almost certainly be very bad for your health
Posted on 12/31/22 at 1:00 am to Wishnitwas1998
That’s interesting. I always thought of alcoholics as people that could drink and function but my only close experience with alcoholism is a case like you’re describing. He had no physical addiction to alcohol but he couldn’t stop once he started. No drinking night ended intentionally.
Posted on 12/31/22 at 1:13 am to 308
Depends, I have a world class alcohol processing liver. I can do that before lunch and run the rapids like a boss at Bulldog Bend on the Cahaba. Tis all relative.
Posted on 12/31/22 at 1:15 am to beaverfever
Precisely, those are literally called “functioning alcoholics.” Or even in my case they would call me a “highly functioning alcoholic,” if I were an alcoholic that is. Lol
Posted on 12/31/22 at 6:00 am to 308
quote:
Would a six-pack every night be considered an alcoholic?
No, but the one drinking it may be.
Posted on 12/31/22 at 6:06 am to 308
Try not drinking for a week straight and you will have your answer…
Posted on 12/31/22 at 6:21 am to Daddywoods
quote:
Only if affects your life negatively
There’s such thing as a functional alcoholic. And regardless a six pack a night will affect anyone’s life negatively
Posted on 12/31/22 at 7:00 am to Daddywoods
quote:So someone is an alcoholic if the alcohol affects their life negatively, regardless of the amount and frequency of dranking? That sounds like something a functioning alcoholic would say.
Only if affects your life negatively
Posted on 12/31/22 at 8:44 am to olgoi khorkhoi
quote:
You're not an alcoholic.
There was a time when I woke up and had at least three drinks before brushing my teeth. Every single day.
I'd have coffee and cigarettes cover the smell. I'd have 2-3 cocktails with lunch. At 4 pm I'd pour the first drink at my desk. I'd work and drink until 8 or so when I would leave. Typically have an energy drink on the drive home. Then have four to five drinks to go to sleep.
Day in. Day out. 6 days a week, for a few years.
It wasn't habit. It wasn't compulsion. It was the only way to face the work schedule and home life that I hated.
I looked in the mirror one morning and realized the gray hair didn't look shiny and sparse littered throughout the black. It was dull. My eyes looked dead. And I wasn't someone I liked.
Turns out that me was the someone a lot of people DID like. And the gradual removal of alcohol and people who made me want it slowly lead to a healthier me.
I quit my job. Sold my house. Built a tiny under 600 square foot home. And forced my wife into it until she had the strength to leave. And hid assets.
All the while tapering from the amount I was drinking to what I am now.
I can have one drink. Hell, I can have more. But I can't cross the line of control.
So...what is that?
Posted on 12/31/22 at 8:50 am to 308
I had a family member who became terribly alcohol dependent. The drinking was scheduled but regular. It ruined that person. Alcohol is a drug and some people, who we call alcoholics, are self-medicating. They will never be the classic drunk who forsakes everything for it but they will forsake most things to disappear into the fog
This post was edited on 12/31/22 at 8:51 am
Posted on 12/31/22 at 9:09 am to 308
Yes
ETA: whether or not a person considers it alcoholism is one thing, but you go to any addictionologist in America and you’re an alcoholic.
ETA: whether or not a person considers it alcoholism is one thing, but you go to any addictionologist in America and you’re an alcoholic.
This post was edited on 12/31/22 at 9:10 am
Posted on 12/31/22 at 9:10 am to 308
Probably
Posted on 12/31/22 at 9:19 am to BayouBengalRubicon
quote:
Americans (women and soy-boys) created the term "alcoholic" when they invented MADD to go after white men. In Europe, it's perfectly normal to drink and smoke every day, and there's no stigma around it. Here you have storm troopers ripping you out of your car on your way home from happy hour and forcefully taking your blood for having two beers. This is what happens when you let women vote: Prohibition was the first thing they enacted!
Repeal the 19th
Posted on 12/31/22 at 9:42 am to 75503Tiger
quote:
to disappear into the fog
Falling off in that bottle ain’t nothin nice. I had a very close family member who succumbed to it in a most direct way, maybe the most direct this side of fatal car crash while driving drunk. Hell possibly even more direct than that:
One of the first very few actions each and every morning was to pour a tall mardi gras cup to the top with a tiny bit ice. After a while the esophagus lining was finally eaten away by alcohol enough to cause a rupture with severe bleeding, of course after having passed out drunk, and died in his sleep.
Uplifting story bro
This post was edited on 12/31/22 at 9:56 am
Posted on 12/31/22 at 9:54 am to GFunkEra
quote:
That’s why I smoke weed now.
Lazy loner
Posted on 12/31/22 at 9:56 am to 308
He sounds like the guy in the Albert Collins song:
Every day, baby
When the sun go down
I get with my friends
And I begin to clown
I don't care
What the people are thinkin'
I ain't drunk
I'm just drinkin'
Every day, baby
When the sun go down
I get with my friends
And I begin to clown
I don't care
What the people are thinkin'
I ain't drunk
I'm just drinkin'
Posted on 12/31/22 at 10:29 am to 308
Can friend go alcohol-free for 100 days (in a row)? Over 100 cases per year…prediction, friend won’t make it 30 days.
Would encourage friend to think about balancing their health and money in decision to party so much. Inevitable liver health, weight gain, diabetes, and could turn some of the $3k beer spend per year towards a mutual fund, to buy something nice down the road. If drives under influence, maximize liability insurance and pray friend does not hurt anyone in doing so, that costs their freedom and wearing heavy weight of guilt.
Party smart! Good luck to friend.
Would encourage friend to think about balancing their health and money in decision to party so much. Inevitable liver health, weight gain, diabetes, and could turn some of the $3k beer spend per year towards a mutual fund, to buy something nice down the road. If drives under influence, maximize liability insurance and pray friend does not hurt anyone in doing so, that costs their freedom and wearing heavy weight of guilt.
Party smart! Good luck to friend.
Posted on 12/31/22 at 10:33 am to Sgt Tuffnuts
quote:Youre only an alcoholic if you're addicted.
According to DUI school, big time alcoholic.
Programs try to convince moderate drinkers that they are alcoholics because it benefits them.
Posted on 12/31/22 at 10:33 am to 308
I would say that you would be well on your way.
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