Oddly enough, in a lot of cases, the alcoholic can drive and function in other areas of society fairly well while drunk. Better than someone who just got drunk one night. I'm not excusing the practice, and over the years that functionality will fade, but you'd be surprised.
You can google "functioning alcoholic" for more info.
119 posted on 08/02/2006 3:06:22 PM PDT by AFreeBird
(... Burn the land and boil the sea's, but you can't take the skies from me.)
I actually have done a fair amount of reading on the subject and am aware of the phenomena you speak of. But as you mention, none of that excuses Gibson in the slightest.