i've heard stories of peopel having simply 1 martini socially each day at about 4pm then missing it one day and having the DT's and not knowing wtf is going on. I dont think it takes much to end up with PAWS. I just think alcoholic or not your break your cycle / pattern of drinking theres going to be issues. You may or may not notice these issues or know why your having these issues so there may be many folks that have em an never even realize hey this is PAWS etc..
I didnt know it then. but at 14 I drank alcoholicly but not regularly. whenever i drank prior to the legal drinking age it was always a binge fest or i was a little too in love with my drink. It just seemed like good fun at the time. In hindsight however my god it just screamed alcoholic.