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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]What is a "ridiculous amount'?

Not tying to take from your story, but without a defined quantity, I feel like these posts are just troll attempts to scare the wine mommies who drink a bottle every night.

That isn't ideal but it's unlikely to kill you

Unless he had Hepatitis or other liver damage, a healthy man would need to drink something like 20 drinks a day for decades for it to kill him. This doesn't happen to Joe 6 pack.[/quote]

NP. Just be glad you’ve never seen this kind of acute alcoholism up close. Something very similar happened with my friend’s boyfriend. He’s still alive but somehow plunges so suddenly into extreme addiction that he has to be medically detoxed. This repeated several times after years of apparent sobriety. And yes the amount he was drinking was immense, not a bottle of wine. (a bottle of wine is a lot tho.) [/quote]

I did see it and live it up close. My father was a daily beer drinker. From the moment he got off work until the time he went to bed, there was a beer in his hand. He'd buy 15-20 cases at a time and dtack them in the garage next to the beer fridge.

He managed a very successfull business, went to law school at 40, practiced law, made  a lot of money,  coached a bunch of mew and my brothers baseball teams, never abused me our our mom, never wrecked a car or got a DUI, etc. But he was most certainly an alcoholic who drank 10ish beers a day, everyday, for decades. He died of Alzheimers at 84.[/quote]

84 is pretty good for an alcoholic.  Imagine how long he would have lived if he hadn't drank[/quote]

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