If you can stop and stay stopped for a few weekends in a row and it doesn't fester in your mind all week about not drinking, then you might just be a heavy drinker. A heavy drinker looks like an alcoholic at times, except that a heavy drinker can quit for good and all if given sufficient reason to (possible jail, loss of job, loss of significant other, etc). Alcoholics can't quit, regardless of the consequences.
Alcoholics cant quit, regardless of the consequences!!! Totally not true, alcoholics can and have been quitting on their own for thousands of years me included and iam sure many others on here also.
A heavy drinker, alcohol abuser, alcohol dependant, alcoholic, chronic alcoholism, it’s all the same thing just at different stages of progression. None of us became alcohol dependant from our first drink it’s physiologically impossible. We all progressed from heavy drinker to alcohol dependant etc.
Addiction is addiction if a heavy drinker dies as a direct result of heavy drinking ie cirrhosis of the liver or alcohol poisoning etc then alcohol has killed him regardless of what his label was, if heroin killed somebody you would not say oh he was just a heavy heroin user, you would say he was an addict simple.
Too much miss information and opinions are literally killing people, if you drink and you can’t control how much you consume once you have had a certain amount you have a serious problem with alcohol. Does not matter what you call it. It will kill you!!
Its very sad that so many people will die from alcohol use and never get the help or education to do something because of this label ( alcoholic) they think because they are a heavy drinker it means they are safe from consequences of drinking too much!