Ok. I am 27/m and I for the last 9 to 11 months have been drinking everyday. I work all day in an office and just about everynight I go out. I only drink beer. Sometimes I only have one or two but sometimes 12-15. I have a group of freinds that we have dinner with and we chill.

I never miss work. Never cause problems with anyone. Never drive. I just like drinking.

Do I have a problem?

If you had to go for a week without drinking, how would you feel....?

Zafu

Thanks for responding.

I would feel fine. Maybe a tad bored though. I like going out and having a smoke or two. Drinks and watching the game or talking about politics. Its a pure social thing.

In my personal opinion you haven't got an addiction problem.

Watch your intake for other health reasons though - alcohol is both often calorific and always a CNS depressant.

Best wishes

Zafu



[This message has been edited by Zafu (edited 08-13-2002).]

Just my opinion: I think 12 to 15 beers indicates alcoholism.

From 1993 to 2000, with the exception of a few months here and there, I drank every day. Drank about six to eight beers a night. I never could understand how someone could put away fifteen in a night. I never progressed to that. Of course, during all this time, I never worked a full-time job, did poorly in school, had no friends, and never drank with others or in bars, only by myself in my apartment. so i had alcoholic tendencies, most of what you describe fits the def. of social drinking, but i still think if you down fifteen beers, well that's screwy and indicates something gone haywire.

If you are asking if there is a problem, then you might already know To me the hardest thing is not having any problems on the surface. Meaning not missing any work not driving under appearing as normal as can be but tha's just surface stuff. Your at the wondering stage. The gut.. listen to the gut