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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]17:37 you seem really defensive and hung up on the label.  This is the deal: whether one glass or fifty, what defines an alcoholic is the need - or perceived need - to drink alcohol and the inability to control that urge.  Sorry if this hits a nerve for you, but that's the reality.  [/quote]

I'm not defensive.  I just think [b]it is kind of clueless and offensive to people who have had loved ones who are actual alcoholics to pretend that having 2 drinks/night is alcoholism[/b].  Alcoholism has a clinical definition -- no matter how much you like those two drinks, it does not make you an alcoholic.  Get back to me when your loved one is literally falling over drunk in their puke; still drunk the next morning; and you literally fear for their lives.  Not all alcoholism is this severe all the time, but it is just stupid to act like two drinks is a "problem" any where close to the equivalent of true alcoholism, the kind that obviously threatens your health, job, and relationships.  [/quote]

I'm the PP you quoted.  Your comments are clueless and offensive.  I have several loved ones, my parents and brother included, who are "actual alcoholics," as you put it.  Yes, I know a thing or two about "actual alcoholism."  Not every "actual alcohlic" is a raging drunk.  It's that kind of thinking that keeps addicts and their families in denial for years - or decades - and not only destroys lives and relationships, but minds and bodies as well. [/quote]

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