” - - - At least 38 million U.S. adults drink too much, and most of them are not alcoholics, - - - “ yet.
Shocker! How much did this stupid study cost us?
I am not a bing drinker, but I have a problem with alcohol.
This is my 2014 resolution to stop all alcohol consumption.
I am not an alcoholic but there are times I think that might be easier.
I have a drinking problem...and I want to overcome it.
How long is a “setting?” What if one has six drinks through 6 hours? Does that make someone an alcoholic, or a binge drinker?
It’s not what you drink or how much you drink, it’s what happens when you drink.
My cases of tall-can Busch Light days are over :-)
When will they figure out the same regarding most problem drivers?
I was witha gf for several years who was a Case Study for alcoholism.
And I mean that she, and then and her entire family were part of a 20+ year research by a gal at IU.
They got a lot of data outta her, I can tell you.
Hey, it worked with hand guns, didn't it?
Gotta manufacture more criminals.
Maybe. But I don't trust a branch of an entirely out-of-control nanny-state to define when drinking is a "problem". I bet if I heard their definition it wouldn't be anything I'd recognize as reality.
I used to think I was an alcoholic. Now, I can afford it.
Four beers in one sitting makes you a binge drinker? LOL
Damn, I better admit myself in the morning.
I wonder how many studies of the general public's private lives it take to classify a public agency as a binge busy-body, strike that, a stone cold drunk mauler of good decent people who relax in their homes with family and friends...
Becoming an alcoholic can be a slow process. Upwards of 10 years or more. If you feel you need it to handle daily life, then you have a problem.
I lived with an alcoholic gf for one year. She was a drunk from the age of 13 in a family with an alcoholic father and older brother. I had to realize it was her choice to live or die. You won’t love someone into getting help. The last service I did for her was have her arrested under an order of protection. She sobered up in jail, got the proper meds she needed all her life for depression and has been sober for 3 1/2 years.
She thanked me for saving her life but I told her that was her ultimate doing. I just gave her a shove.
I’m just glad I’m not visiting her in the cemetery. We both have our own lives now but remain friends.
The absolute madness of watching someone commit slow motion suicide leaves a mark on you. I’ll never think about alcohol the same way again. As the one who was sober throughout all of it, I get to have the bad memories of it all. Working through that now and I know I’ll be fine. It’s boundaries and choices.
This article is crap. No one has a right to say one is, or is not, an alcoholic — except the person in question.
I’m sure there were many times when I had at least 4 drinks and went home with a woman who had at least 3. Fortunately neither of us would remember the next day. Sometimes blackouts are good.
I don’t drink anymore.
The Medicos are also screening for firearms.
Well....I’ll trust the CDC, when I trust Obama....(never)....I think people KNOW if they have a problem. I have been wondering...HOW much alcohol is in a “drink?” I drink about 4-6 oz of red wine before dinner....it doesn’t affect me, my sleep, or my life. The article says women who drink something 7 times a week (that’s me) have a problem....what BUNK.
I sent a message to your mail.