To your second point, high functioning alcoholics are real. The bad effects take longer to manifest, but long term alcohol abuse makes up half of the 95,000 ann

To your second point, high functioning alcoholics are real. The bad effects take longer to manifest, but long term alcohol abuse makes up half of the 95,000 annual alcohol related deaths in the US. Source: https://www.cdc.gov/alcohol/features/excessive-alcohol-deaths.html https://www.cdc.gov/alcohol/features/excessive-alcohol-death...