Alcoholism in your country

How bad is it? Do you know anyone in your family who is alcoholic?

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real bad here, but funnily enough no one in my family/frinds is alcoholic

I'm an alcoholic. i drink a bottle of wine almost every night.

Rampant, but nobody cares. It's kinda convenient to have people drop dead at 50.

I'm drinking wine right now. Rosso di Forlì, Syrah-Cabernet.

Do you see any unicorns or elves. the only time i can stop having visions of unicorns is when i drink video related youtube.com/watch?v=duqg9pq0mLM

this song plays in my head all day i have to drink to make it stop

You may drink a lot, but downing a bottle of wine every night isn't being "an alcoholic".

You're an alcoholic when you're smashing down 1-2 5ths a night or drinking damn near an 18 pack every night.

Pretty bad here, am a drunkard myself

My grandad is apparently an alcoholic but I've never seen him drunk.
He's run over a man with his truck while drunk once though.

I don't unicorns or elves. I do see witches though. Nasty, disgusting witches with long nails and glowing yellow eyes. This is why I drink every night.
Somehow alcohol keeps them away.

>He's run over a man with his truck while drunk once though.
What happened to the man? Did your grandpa end up behind the bars?

Well i drink about 4 beers after that if i can.

End stage alcoholism is reached when you're drinking a 5th a day.

Two 5ths is insanity, but I'm not doubting that some people reach that level.

No. This was during Soviet times. The man survived but my grandad couldn't drive his truck for 6 months.

It's not about quantity, tryhard. It's about addiction. Plus for all we know that user could be 120lbs and 1 liter of wine every day would be quite a lot.

Oh well, everything ok then.

What even is an alcoholic?

How many nights a week do you have to drink to be defined as an alchoholic?

My dad is one and so am I. Life is just incredibly boring and dull without drinking

Not really. If I could change the law, I would make it that he would have served a few years in jail, would lose his license for like 10 years, and would have to check into a hospital like bidaily to see if he wasn't drinking at all.

To be fair, if I were stuck in Soviet Lithuania for the rest of my life I'd try to drink myself to death too.

There's no such thing as an alcoholic

Yeah I drink a lot, my parents drink a lot, my grandparents drank a lot.

I'll probably die early.

My fathers parents were alcoholics. My mothers father was an alcoholic. My mother drank and my father drank, use drugs. A lot of people I know drink, some to the point of being too much you might say. When it's legal and socially acceptable it will be widespread I guess.

Not during your work hours though. That's why socialism is shit. You could do whatever you want and still wouldn't lose your job.

>How bad is it?
It could be better but beer and wine are expensive and I don't have enough friends that bring alcohol over often enough.

Not horrible
Me

It's fine

That's probably the only good thing about socialism though. If you're a law abiding citizen, of course.

What is that good for?
Nobody tries to do anything right, everyone steals shit from their workplaces and the economy crumbles.

Drinking a bottle of wine every night is alcoholic as fuck.

Wait, really? I thought seeing witches was just an antebellum nigger thing.

"Winston Churchill put it very squarely when he defined the issue as, essentially, a wager. He was a lifelong sufferer from the depression that he nicknamed his “black dog”, but he could rouse himself to action and commitment and inspiration, and the brandy bottle was often a crucial prop. I have taken more out of alcohol, he said simply, than it has taken out of me. His chief antagonist, Adolf Hitler, was, I need hardly add, a fanatical teetotaler (though with a shorter and less wholesome life span). The most lethal and fascistic of our current enemies, the purist murderers of the Islamic jihad, despise our society for, among other things, its intolerance of alcohol. We should perhaps do more to earn this hatred and contempt, and less to emulate it." - Hitchens

There has never been an alcohol problem in the history of anywhere.

I come from a generation of alcoholic's, Living in this liberal shithole known as Canada.
Well.. I need a fucking a drink

No sweat. Only a moderate amount of country in my alcohol.

Do jews drink? Or is it haram?

It's better than unemployment. Then again, I never lived in the USSR under socialism so I can't tell for sure.

I see them everytime I get a sleep paralysis/lucid dream combo, ie everytime I go to sleep naturally without taking benzos or drinking alcohol. Better to ruin my liver than have nightmares for the rest of my life.

It is very bad.
My mother is an alcoholic.
Most of my male neighbors are alcoholics.
I think 1/4 of my coworkers are alcoholics, some smoke weed instead of drinking.

We basically bathe in booze

My mother is an alcoholic and I'm an alcoholic. She owns multi-million dollar mid-size business and I'm a physics grad student. We're Irish, we can be drunks and excel in life at the same time.

i'm coming from a polish family and half of all my family member died due to alcoholism or lung cancer.

but here in germany only old man and muslims are alcoholics.

Churchill was a warmongering drunk. He wasn't using it for a bit of social lubrication, he just liked to get shitfaced because he was a huge cuck that sold his country.

> muslims are alcoholics.
How so? Can't handle the booze when it's not prohibited?

>how bad is alcoholism in your country

pretty bad, we even have a name for it:
Wallonia

Said the guy who died horribly from a type of cancer directly correlated with heavy drinking.

>muh alcohol is da devil

Lmfao. Bluepillers literally will believe anything as long as they can convince themselves they're "in control" of their life.

Drinking isn't bad for your health. Maube for some people, but basically 99% of your health is determined not by choices, but GENETICS.

George Burns smoked 300,000 CIGARS in his life.

THREE HUNDRED THOUSAND.

CIGARS.

He also drank a lot of alcohol.

HE LIVED TO 100.

THE GUY WAS A FUCKING CENTURY OLD.

And yet he did all the things we're told are bad. So how did he live so long?
>Oh! Oh! he must have drank loads of kale or did yoga or crossfi-
IT WAS HIS FUCKING GENETICS. That's why there are COUNTLESS teetollars who die early because they got FUCKED by GENETICS. As unfair and annoying as it is, health is pretty much determined ENTIRELY by genetics.

By all means stop drinking if you want to save money, but don't do it for health reasons because it won't make a difference. If you have alpha genetics, you'll be fine. If not, you'll just die of something else anyway.

I drink to forget i hate myslef :')

It's better than unemployment for you momentarily
It's worse than unemployment for the economy and everyone who thinks about what's gonna happen in 5 years.

Plus you can find a job if you try. The only people who are unemployed are lazy people.

I come from a family of extreme alcoholics, but my parents were able to control their drinking and even in my current college days it luckily passed on to me.

Apparently my great grandfather was a farmer with a huge drinking problem. Not a lot known about the guy, he died in his early 30s from binge drinking. I'm told he didn't drink that much, but when he did he'd rock that horse for 3 days straight. Absolute madman.
My dad's side is full of Boston-tier alcoholics. You know what I'm talking about. Luckily, my mom enjoys a couple glasses of wine 3 times a week, and my dad is considered the most alcoholic, but he just sucks down 3-4 beers a night the last I saw.

So yeah, you can have it in your genes, but genes are also just a good excuse. Don't be an idiot and don't drink every fucking day.

Oh oh, let me add to this

>BUT HE WOULDVE LIVED LONGER IF HE DIDNT DRINK AND SMOKE

>The only people who are unemployed are lazy people.

Fairly bad. Pretty similar to the US by population percentage, I'd say.

I'm a recovering alcoholic. I have what I call a super addictive personality. Within three years I went from drinking on the weekend to drinking a fifth of whiskey with a 6 pack every day.

Sorry to break it to you. Maybe, just maybe you're not lazy, you simply make very poor life decisions.

I'm an high school dropout so... yeah.

I too am alcohol
it's not good

You should still be able to find a minimum wage job.

>Churchill was a warmongering drunk
Hitler was a warmongering teetotaler and do you have any idea what Hitlers plans where for England? are you a Stormfront fag?

>Said the guy who died horribly from a type of cancer

Well i can't argue with that but i don't get your point.

You're a fucking idiot

Anyway

Alcohol abuse in the UK is pretty awful, it forms a gigantic part of socializing, and in turn becomes a huge drain on our society. The youth of this country have a massive amount of pissheads, and university students will happily burn hundreds, if not thousands of pounds of their student loans on alcohol.

Any methods that helped you recover?

Fucking have to wait till I'm 21 to taste beer and 25 for hard liquor

>Cherrypicking

>minimun wage
>in Italy
it'd be easier to win the lottery m8
"tanned" refugees take all the minimum wage jobs
I got my ass covered for now though

I knew of a guy that in periods could drink a minimum of 2 liter of 92+% moonshine a day

How does that even work??
I had to drop school at 16 because of my drug/alcohol problems. And I started drinking at around 14.

No idea, I drink 4-6 beers everyday and I'm okay with it

Are you saying that refugees are better workers than white Italians?
Kek

Enough was enough when I started drinking hand sanitizer. Went to detox, and I was there for 9 days. I went to AA during the first few months but I didn't like it.

Mostly what helped was I met people in detox who had been in and out of rehab 20+ times. I decided I didn't want to end up like that and I've been sober since.

You have to control your addictive tendencies. Recognize that your brain always remembers the good times, not bad. Then you can start ignoring the cravings with pretty good efficiency.

Oh and no, I'm not native.

In the words of Todd Howard the great ,
It just works

They work for half the salary. Some (like half) of them are hired illegally.
I'll let you draw the conclusions.

tHeres no problem here.

same fucking here. socialising is a burdent if i do not drink :(

I didn't socialize, I drank alone.

It's not as bad here as the stereotypes would have you believe, but it's still pretty fucked up. 1 in close family, 7 in extended at a guess.

>Do you know anyone in your family who is alcoholic?
Literally all of us.
Life isn't perfect, and neither are we.

I said you should find a minimum wage job. Refugees don't work for "half the salary", they work for minimum wage.
I'm talking about those that are hired legally.

I always have to defend my stance of not drinking. They never answer my question as to why they drink that shit though. They only say it's fun to waste literally hundreds of euros within a single night.

Binge drinking here is fucking appalling

Don't know any alcoholics personally though. I barely drink myself.

Jews drink but not very much. Semites have different digestive enzymes and I think they process it slightly differently so that they're less likely to get addicted (whether it's because the pleasant effects don't last as long or the unpleasant effects come sooner)

desu I'm slightly envious of that as I enjoy drinking a little too much and am definitely flirting with alcoholism.

Well done sir or madame.

Everyone including me is an alcoholic in my family.

My mother was an alcoholic, she died when I was 15.
Alcohol is some real serious shit, yo.

Thank you canuck.

>Do you know anyone in your family who is alcoholic?
Yes. Me.

>Refugees don't work for "half the salary", they work for minimum wage.
M8, trust me. It's a big deal here in Italy.
They take 4-500 euros/month which is less than half an Italian worker should get.
Again, there's no minimum wage in Italy. Companies can come up with any salary they want. The difference is, non-citizens don't pay taxes. Which are very high here in Italy.

verywell.com/rare-gene-discourages-alcoholism-among-jews-63179

For many years, it was generally believed that religious and cultural influences were the reason for low rates of alcoholism among Jewish males, but modern research has found a biological explanation for the phenomenon.

Scientists are not exactly sure why, but a gene variation first known as alcohol dehydrogenase 2 (ADH2*2), but later called alcohol dehydrogenase 1B (ADH1B), tends to discourage heavier drinking in the persons who have the gene.

Because an estimated 20% of the Jewish population has the ADH1B gene, it is believed to be a factor in the low rates of alcoholism reported in this ethnic group. The gene produces a more active from of the enzyme that catalyzes the first step in alcohol metabolism.

Gene Has Protective Effect for Alcoholism
The relatively high prevalence of the ADH1B gene in the Jewish population would account for the low rates of alcoholism more so than differences in religious practices or level of religiosity, studies have found.

Those who have the gene variant tend to drink less frequently, consume less alcohol overall or have more unpleasant reactions to alcohol

Every male before me was/is an alcoholic.

I don't drink. Last time I tried it was when I was 16 or so. 23 now.
Not a smoker.

Just a promise I made to myself when I was 15 or so. A matter of life principle. My family was wrecked and destroyed because of my alcoholic father. He lost it all - us, wife, career.

I don't want to repeat.

And I don't believe that dulling my mind will solve any problems, ever.

My father grew up with a neighbour who was an alcoholic, a really nice old man who taught him how to play cards.

Then there is a locally famous guy who is an alcoholic, poor and miserable who tried to kill himself with the stuff they euthanize horses with.

Thanks
No problem.

>Again, there's no minimum wage in Italy
Oh ok that changes everything. Tough luck then.

My old man drank a shit ton after my mom died. He had already liked to booze before that but when she passed he kicked it up ten fold. Reached alcoholic levels when he was just drunk in the middle of the days for no reason and never working (owns his own business). Eventually amassed enough dui's that he had no money for lawyers and spent close to a year in prison for the last one.

Funny thing is though, he was so pissed off at everyone calling him an alcoholic and telling him he needed help. He claimed he could stop whenever. I thought it was just bullshit but from the moment he got the last arrest up until this day, which is 3.5 years, he quit cold turkey (had to since he never bonded out of jail before sentencing) and hasn't touched the stuff since. And I see him every few days and lived with him a bit during that time so I know it's for real.

Even though the jail part and having to quit straight up was a kick in the ass it showed me that anyone should be able to kick it with enough willpower. Anyone that makes excuses is a pussy.

Me.
It's only been going on for about two years, so I'm still functional-

You must have taken way too much Ketamine/acid/DMT. Source: occaisonal audiovisual ringing and often fluctuations of light particles and objects.

>End stage alcoholism
damn son I was doing this at 17 for about 9 months so glad I quit my brains ruined though

I prefer weed and I don't really know anyone who is an alcoholic

>Well i can't argue with that but i don't get your point.

Irony, m8. If drinking is a wager, then Hitch lost that wager hard. Maybe he should have spent more time trying to sober up for his kids' sake, and less time writing paeans to the benefits of drinking.

And really, arguing that alcohol is a good thing because Hitler and Islamo-niggers hate it shows just how badly drinking can addle the brain of an intelligent person.

Having 14 drinks a week is the definition of an alcoholic for a male if you are looking at quantity consumed.
So if you weigh 145 lbs and drink 5 beersper night 3nights per week you are an alcoholic

What?

1. Alcoholic if you are addicted to alcohol
2. Problem with alcohol if alcohol comes in the way of you living a normal life

Ya'll got nothing on us

my grandpa is always piss drunk and smells of piss and alcohol but i let him be he escaped from the train to siberia and probably saw some shit during soviet times he built a brick house with grandma and had 4 children, all of which il probably never do so im fine with him drinking he has the right to be a piss drunk alcoholic he has earned it.

>Recognize that your brain always remembers the good times, not bad. Then you can start ignoring the cravings with pretty good efficiency.

This is very good advice.

I'm a sober alcoholic. I used to slam a whole 5th of vodka in under a minute.