I think that it helps to understand how alcohol affects the brain. Some people are more vulnerable to developing a problem than others.

I can remember when my father drank on weekends, he would get pretty drunk and my parents pretty much always fought when they went out because my father got to drinking and tended to ignore my mother. Yet, my father was a weekend drinker and often by Monday morning he would be very negative and moody. I now know that the reason for that was "withdrawl". I remember my mother saying how after the weekend my father was always moody in a bad way for a day or two. She hated how he was like that.

We are now learning more about how alcohol affects the brain, more than so many years ago when I was seeing the affects of it. Now we have learned what it does to the brain and the rest of the body. I personally would only drink until I felt tipsy and then I always switched over to tea or soda. I never saw the attraction for drinking until looking down right stupid and sloppy or basically incoherent.

People get addicted to the dopamine high and they don't realize how drinking too often begins to take more to get that dopamine high. People do not realize how the alcohol is affecting their brain in other ways that can damage how they function. These individuals start thinking that because they can consume more they are somehow stronger or better when that's simply not the case, it typically means they have developed more tolerance and they begin to drink more causing more damage.