Whats the difference between an alcoholic and a heavy drinker?
I’m not a professional alcohol therapist, but I know that they break people down in different categories based on their drinking habits. One might be a problem drinker or a chronic drinker or something. Eventually, if a person persists in alcohol consumption, they become physically and mentally dependent on alcohol. These folks are alcoholics. The most serious and chronic alcoholics must drink every day or they experience terrible withdrawal symptoms like delirium tremens (DTs), visions, auditory hallucinations and other bad stuff. Some folks may consider themselves alcoholics even though they have never been dependent on alcohol; this may be because they experienced bad consequences from the drinking they did do (like drunk driving crashes or arrests, unwanted pregnancies, missed work or lost jobs, drunken stupidity allowing for the use of hard drugs etc.) A heavy drinker is someone who drinks regularly but may not have ever experienced any negative ramifications. There is a decent ar
