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One immediate question is when and what constitutes a drinking problem? When is it too much. There are some medical classifications stating that one glass of wi

One immediate question is when and what constitutes a drinking problem? When is it too much. There are some medical classifications stating that one glass of wine per day constitutes alcoholism. Is that true, or does it make any sense?

quotedmycode 11y ago
I believe it constitutes a problem when your drinking affects your social, economic, or work life negatively.
rm_-rf_slash 11y ago
Long story short my mother has an incredibly rare condition that causes her neural stem to be constantly telling her brain her face is in pain, all the time, every day, even though it's fine. She has been prescribed every kind of painkiller, including some of the strongest opiates one can acquire legally in America, and yet they don't affect the rare and hard to reach nerves, and are useless. However, she does drink a few glasses of wine a day and having tried everything else, she is adamant that alcohol is the only acceptable painkiller for her to take for the rest of her life. I mention this because I have roughly 1-3 drinks per night -what the doctor told my mother as "average for a Frenchman" - yet when I drink even a beer I lose all motivation to go to the gym that night or to cook a healthy and properly proportioned meal. So I think the way to define a drinking problem isn't in quantity, but by the opportunity cost of drinking or drinking too much on any given occasion.
DanBC 11y ago
There are no classifications saying one glass a day is alcoholism. There is low risk drinking, increased risk drinking, and high risk drinking. Alongside that you have dependant and non-dependant drinking (an addiction to alcohol). To get a medically supervised withdrawal from alcohol in England a person meeds to be drinking 40 units per day. That's a litre of vodka at 40% ABV every day. Low risk drinking is one or two drinks a day, with some days drink free.
thebign 11y ago
There is a guideline that is used when identifying most addictions [1] since most patterns of behavior tend to be similar regardless of substance or activity that the person is addicted to. >Another way of describing addiction is the presence of the 4 C's: >Craving >Loss of Control of amount or frequency of use >Compulsion to use >Use despite Consequences. [1]: https://www.porticonetwork.ca/web/fundamentals-addiction-toolkit/introduction https://www.porticonetwork.ca/web/fundamentals-addiction-too...

quotedmycode 11y ago

I believe it constitutes a problem when your drinking affects your social, economic, or work life negatively.

rm_-rf_slash 11y ago

Long story short my mother has an incredibly rare condition that causes her neural stem to be constantly telling her brain her face is in pain, all the time, every day, even though it's fine. She has been prescribed every kind of painkiller, including some of the strongest opiates one can acquire legally in America, and yet they don't affect the rare and hard to reach nerves, and are useless. However, she does drink a few glasses of wine a day and having tried everything else, she is adamant that alcohol is the only acceptable painkiller for her to take for the rest of her life. I mention this because I have roughly 1-3 drinks per night -what the doctor told my mother as "average for a Frenchman" - yet when I drink even a beer I lose all motivation to go to the gym that night or to cook a healthy and properly proportioned meal. So I think the way to define a drinking problem isn't in quantity, but by the opportunity cost of drinking or drinking too much on any given occasion.

DanBC 11y ago

There are no classifications saying one glass a day is alcoholism. There is low risk drinking, increased risk drinking, and high risk drinking. Alongside that you have dependant and non-dependant drinking (an addiction to alcohol). To get a medically supervised withdrawal from alcohol in England a person meeds to be drinking 40 units per day. That's a litre of vodka at 40% ABV every day. Low risk drinking is one or two drinks a day, with some days drink free.

thebign 11y ago

There is a guideline that is used when identifying most addictions [1] since most patterns of behavior tend to be similar regardless of substance or activity that the person is addicted to. >Another way of describing addiction is the presence of the 4 C's: >Craving >Loss of Control of amount or frequency of use >Compulsion to use >Use despite Consequences. [1]: https://www.porticonetwork.ca/web/fundamentals-addiction-toolkit/introduction https://www.porticonetwork.ca/web/fundamentals-addiction-too...