Thanks CRS. My first reaction on reading many of the posts here last week was, "hey, I'm not anything like those people." Then I drank so much Thursday night that it took me most of the day to put the pieces of the evening back together in my mind - which is pretty bad when all I did was put the kids to bed and drink on the sofa until I passed out, like almost every other night in recent memory. Didn't feel too good yesterday, but nothing like the serious medical problems I've been reading about here.
I read about half of a book yesterday called "The Addictive Mind" yesterday, and recognized a lot of myself in there and could see where I am on the path it describes. I think it's time for a change.