6 cans/bottles/pints a day isn't terrible in the grand scheme of things, but its not good either, and it almost always escalates over time. You can sustain a p

6 cans/bottles/pints a day isn't terrible in the grand scheme of things, but its not good either, and it almost always escalates over time. You can sustain a pretty serious drinking problem that will cause long term harm to your health while also remaining a functional member of society, even getting up to the bottle of scotch a day or more tier. A fair amount of my professional peers are basically highly functional alcoholics, who have not yet reached a point where it causes sufficient impact on them to recognise the problem. Most of those people may well have access to professional help, they just don't use it because they don't see a problem. Yet.