im an alcoholic so i cant drink a drop i know i started drinkin to begin with to self med & it led to full blown alcoholism. i know cuz before booze when i was a kid i would self medicate with food & then i found alcohol. what a nightmare it became & what a nightmare getting off the stuff. now my soon to be exhusband is a binge drinker who self med i dont care what he says. like madisgram said he can go for weeks at a time but when he picks it up its ugly. like he drinks cuz hes unhappy & miserable & hes then unhappy & even more miserable bacuz hes back on the booze not to mention it always leads to cocaine. i told him its not a matter of i cant be around all that anymore i Wont be around it! i dunno maybe theres the rare cases for people who never drink & they get soused one night for some reason or maybe for no reason but like only cuz its new years & they wanna party. satu thats crazy with the therapy thats why a lot of people go to therapy to deal with issues they drowned with booze or pills or whatever.