[bryanthompson]

I've been told that anyone who schedules drinking in to their life regulary is an alcoholic... like, someone who planned on drinking champagne every new years eve would be one, by their logic... I don't like their logic.

My definition would be... if drinking starts interfering with your job, school, marriage, or social life (outside of the drinking social life), you might have a problem.

My dad's an alcoholic, his two brothers are, his father is, and his grandpa was. On my mom's side, nobody is. It's impossible to say whether I would be one or not (is it genetics? real disease? or just psychological?) , but... looking at that trend, I'd think I would be. I don't drink, and I don't think I ever will, just because I've seen all the crap that comes from it. I have yet to see any benefit to getting drunk, ever.