The type of problem drinker identified include:

[DilipPurohit]

1 The stress drinker-- those who use alcohol to calm down at the end of a hard day.

2. Community drinker-- those driven by the need to belong.

3. Hedonistic drinkers--those who want to lose control.

4.Macho drinkers-- those who tend to spend most of their spare time in pubs.

5. re-bonding drinkers-- use to drink to keep in touch with friends

6. conformist drinkers-- Who driven by the need to belong and seek structure.

 

[dimpy.handa]

Here are some additional signs that someone has a problem with alcohol:
Family or social problems associated with drinking.
Hiding liquor.
Lying about drinking
Making promises about drinking to oneself or others Drinking to escape from pressure or to solve life's problems.
Feeling guilty after drinking or regret over what was done while drinking.
Getting drunk even when intending to stay sober.

 

[vardhanvishnug]

Advantages of taking alcohol:
The National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA) reports that moderate drinkers have the greatest longevity. Moderate drinking results in a sharp decrease in heart disease risk (40%-60%). (This is a pretty major effect considering that cardiovascular disease is the number one killer in the United States, responsible for one million deaths in America each year.)

* A study of 12,000 male physicians done in the U.K. over a 13-year period found that moderate drinkers had the lowest risk of death from ALL causes.

* The Italians did a study of 1,536 men aged 45 to 65. The study found that the moderate drinkers among them gained about 2 years of life compared to occasional and heavy drinkers.

* China also did a large-scale study of middle aged men. It too found that those who drank moderately had a nearly 20% lower mortality rate compared to men who abstained from drink.

The studies are not confined to male subjects. Alcohol does not discriminate between the sexes.

* The Harvard Nurses study of over 85,000 women reported reduced mortality among the moderate drinkers.

* Harvard researchers did a study of over 5,000 women with type 2 diabetes. The moderate drinkers among them had significantly lower heart disease rates than those who didn't drink. In fact, the women who drank about half a glass of alcohol a day reduced their risk from coronary heart disease by more than half.