I don't know. A lot of my "working-class" childhood acquaintances and extended family goes through at least 2 six-packs of Miller Light in a night. Now, in the

I don't know. A lot of my "working-class" childhood acquaintances and extended family goes through at least 2 six-packs of Miller Light in a night. Now, in the case of my particular family members, I wouldn't exactly say they don't have a problem. Most of them live on the edge of poverty, which would be much less of a problem if they didn't drink and smoke at least a pack of cigarettes a day. But most of these folks who drink massive amounts of the sort of beers-I-wouldn't-touch-with-a-ten-foot-pole are mostly functional in society. By that, I mean, they don't have a monopoly on family and money problems. Shockingly few people have their shit together in the way that we talk about when we talk about the dangers of addiction. Like I said, I don't know. It's not very clear/cut-and-dried to me.