Originally Posted by
Zube 
*OR* maybe YOU are not an alcoholic.
It's the same as saying that diabetes isn't real, or diabetes is greatly exaggerated, because you personally used to eat a lot of sweets, and suddenly stopped.
Don't quit your day job. Your days as a expert on alcoholism are numbered.
I'm burying a friend on Friday who felt that he could control his drinking.
Zube
Zube, My Condolences on the death of your friend. I too had my Daughter's Funeral in May last year, She was 37 yrs. old. She could not quit the drinking, but also had no signs of damage until about a year before her death.
That is the insidious part of Alcohol Dependency, you usually don't get symptoms of anything wrong until it is too late, when the liver is so damaged it can no longer repair itself.
Alcoholism might not be a disease, but the effects of drinking lead to disease, in a lot of cases fatal.