Just to echo what Dee said....so often people talk about (earlier on) being binge drinkers, and ultimately progressing to the all day/every day sort.
IMO and IME....it simply does not matter what "kind of drinker" anyone is, if you are an alcoholic like me.
Threads and shares like this always make me think of what AA calls bargaining. We can do it in innumerable ways:
"I never drink during the week"
"I only drink wine"
"I have two every night after work and they're never that big."
"It's not always that much"
It's...or it's not...
That word YET almost always enters the picture if we don't stop.
For me...I wasn't dead yet - when I finally stopped. I definitely would have reached that final YET in short order if I hadn't, regardless of the type of drinker I'd been at any point along the way.