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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I have two families as friends.

Family 1: Dad works 6 days out if the week.  Every night when he comes home he goes to his man cave and drinks (beer, wine) until 4am.  Sleeps till 1 and goes to work. Is this alcoholism?

Family 2: I don’t know if he drinks during the week but on the weekend he starts drinking in the morning and doesn’t stop.  One time we gave him and his friends a six pack each.  He drank his in 15 minutes and started drinking his friend’s.

Is this alcoholism? How can they function and maintain jobs?[/quote]Family 1 - probably yes.  Family 2  - definitely yes.  And there are lot of people who are active alcoholics and manage to function at their jobs.  [/quote]

How can alcoholics manage to keep their jobs and function day to day for years? I thought it's not a static disease. Shouldn't it progressively get worse? [/quote]

Alcoholism is a progressive disease.  Many alcoholics can function on their jobs for decades until they can't.  The progressive disease gets worse over time.
Long term alcoholism have a lot of health issues linked to alcoholism:  tremors, memory, gout, diabetes, heart issues, gait issues etc etc etc[/quote]

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