Comments on: One Alcoholic, Five Personalities http://www.attackofthemonkey.com/blog/2007/06/29/one-alcoholic-five-personalities/ Science News ... Monkey Spin Wed, 19 Nov 2008 23:59:47 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.1.3 By: nizome http://www.attackofthemonkey.com/blog/2007/06/29/one-alcoholic-five-personalities/#comment-804 nizome Mon, 23 Jul 2007 20:21:21 +0000 http://www.attackofthemonkey.com/blog/2007/06/29/one-alcoholic-five-personalities/#comment-804 Soical Adults/Functional Alcoholics - Seems as though they describe an alcoholic as someone who suffers from alcoholism, which is a person who suffers from alcohol dependence and maybe also alcohol abuse. I'm not sure what abuse is, other than excessive use and/or breaking the law while under the influence. I'm not sure what is considered excessive use. Maybe if you black out a lot, are hung-over all the time, often make decisons you wouldn't have otherwise made while under the influence, have liver damage, or die an alcohol related death. For other, non legallized substances, use is abuse, while for legal but controlled substances, illegal use is abuse. I don't know if smokers are ever referred to as users or abusers, but then the only thing that you can't legally do while smoking is drink in a bar. . . . So basically, as for recognizing people you know in the list, are these social young adult drinkers dependent on alcohol? Certainly many activities may involve alcohol, but is it needed? Perhaps they are dependent if they really can't be social without it, but for most of your friends, this probably isn't the case. I know that when we are broke, none of us seem to be in the mood drink. Our pregnant friends are socializing just fine without alcohol while their husbands drink for three. We all cut back when we are on antibiotics. We are certainly able to stop drinking (for a short time) to quickly loose some weight. As for excessive use . . . well, by definition alcoholism appears to require dependence. Excessive use without dependence is just someone who drinks a lot. Soical Adults/Functional Alcoholics -
Seems as though they describe an alcoholic as someone who suffers from alcoholism, which is a person who suffers from alcohol dependence and maybe also alcohol abuse. I’m not sure what abuse is, other than excessive use and/or breaking the law while under the influence. I’m not sure what is considered excessive use. Maybe if you black out a lot, are hung-over all the time, often make decisons you wouldn’t have otherwise made while under the influence, have liver damage, or die an alcohol related death. For other, non legallized substances, use is abuse, while for legal but controlled substances, illegal use is abuse. I don’t know if smokers are ever referred to as users or abusers, but then the only thing that you can’t legally do while smoking is drink in a bar. . . .

So basically, as for recognizing people you know in the list, are these social young adult drinkers dependent on alcohol? Certainly many activities may involve alcohol, but is it needed? Perhaps they are dependent if they really can’t be social without it, but for most of your friends, this probably isn’t the case. I know that when we are broke, none of us seem to be in the mood drink. Our pregnant friends are socializing just fine without alcohol while their husbands drink for three. We all cut back when we are on antibiotics. We are certainly able to stop drinking (for a short time) to quickly loose some weight.
As for excessive use . . . well, by definition alcoholism appears to require dependence. Excessive use without dependence is just someone who drinks a lot.

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