I am utterly convinced that alcoholism is a genetic problem. That some people are just predispositioned to become addicted if they have more than 2-3 drinks a week. There are way too many people out there that have a beer, a glass of whisky, or other drinks nearly every day after work and can not only control themselves, but wouldn’t even notice a craving if they went a weeks without it. But, daily drinking is seen as a sign of alcoholism.
I feel like the only reason we put the bar so low is that people are idiots. If we said that some people need to limit their drinking to a couple times a week at most, while others can get hammered every night with no problem, EVERYONE would assume they’re in that latter group. So instead we say everyone is at risk so that alcoholics can’t try to justify their problems.
I am utterly convinced that alcoholism is a genetic problem. That some people are just predispositioned to become addicted if they have more than 2-3 drinks a week. There are way too many people out there that have a beer, a glass of whisky, or other drinks nearly every day after work and can not only control themselves, but wouldn’t even notice a craving if they went a weeks without it. But, daily drinking is seen as a sign of alcoholism.
I feel like the only reason we put the bar so low is that people are idiots. If we said that some people need to limit their drinking to a couple times a week at most, while others can get hammered every night with no problem, EVERYONE would assume they’re in that latter group. So instead we say everyone is at risk so that alcoholics can’t try to justify their problems.
Alcohol has been a fellow traveller for millennia, so it only makes sense that evolution would give us the tools to survive it