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Don;t use this as an excuse to drink a little.

warmest
warmest
I don't know if I should share this. I just find it interesting. I'm a big guy and at times I was a very heavy active drinker, but I can't imagine drinking this much. Please don't think I am judging anyone.

"The top 10 percent of American drinkers - 24 million adults over age 18 - consume, on average, 74 alcoholic drinks per week. That works out to a little more than four-and-a-half 750 ml bottles of Jack Daniels, 18 bottles of wine, or three 24-can cases of beer. In one week.

Or, if you prefer, 10 drinks per day."

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2014/09/25/think-you-drink-a-lot-this-chart-will-tell-you/?tid=a_inl

from:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2016/02/05/americas-lawyers-have-a-serious-drinking-problem/?tid=paid_fb_keywee&kwp_0=106864&kwp_4=554505&kwp_1=293394
Community Leaderbobinmaine
bobinmaine
Before I read the second article, I thought it was going to say that doctors had the biggest drinking problem but the article said it was lawyers which is pretty scary considering most politicians are lawyers and they run the country.

I knew a doctor in AA and he told me the alcoholism among doctors is close to 50 percent, they are just better at hiding it. That's even scarier!

Thankyou for sharing.

God Bless!
fairygirl3
fairygirl3
I most definitely did during my last few months or so of drinking. It's sick. Very. I've been sober for over 11 months now.
LLB2
LLB2
Did anyone else get out a calculator to see if they qualified during their drinking careers?.....or was that just me?
ce2016
ce2016
I'm in that group. Conservatively, I calculated that I drank over 168 beers a week. I was so lost it just completely ruined me. Because of the large quantity I was able to drink I didn't really think that I could quit. I thought I was beyond help. Yet, I totally committed myself, suffered through the intense pain of withdrawal, and now I am totally sober. There will no doubt be challenges down the road, but for now I am free from that evil vice.
lg1
lg1
1 is too many and 1,000 is never enough .
That's all I need to know.
parthgalen
parthgalen
I take no pride in saying that I was in the top 10% during the last year of my active drinking (which was up until Sept. 29, 2015). I would usually have 13-14 lite beers M-F in my home office, then a glass or two of wine at night w/ my wife -- who had no idea I was consuming that amt of beer during the day. The weekends I usually curtailed a bit and "only" had 5-6 drinks a day. Add it all up and I was at that magic number of 75 per week. I do not want to go back to that madness. I have met plenty of good folks in AA who would drink a 750 ml bottle per day of Vodka and had some pretty heavy withdrawal symptoms. My one silver lining was that I didn't go thru that kind of withdrawal. I know a trap door awaits me for a lower bottom and I do not want to go there... One day at a time of keeping the plug in the jug. Yours in the journey, PG
1is2many
1is2many
I was always better than the average alcoholic...
1-2
rwmorey
rwmorey
I'm sorry but the math has to be wrong. At my worst I was averaging about 1.5 bottles of wine per day which is 10.5 per week so lets say 11. If I drank 18 bottles of wine in any will I'd be dead. That's more than 2 bottles per day which, if I did one day I'd be too hungover the next day to drink that much again.

Rich
warmest
warmest
Thanks for the replies. I agree with lg1. And after I thing about it, I have no idea how much I drank- much more than I thought or admitted. After my previous stretch of sobriety, at first only one or two drinks was plenty. Rapidly I needed more. For me this one of the accurate signs I was alcoholic.

I'll repeat this to myself often:
1 is too many and 1,000 is never enough .
That's all I need to know.
forestfreek
forestfreek
" I'm a big guy and at times I was a very heavy active drinker, but I can't imagine drinking this much"

I'm surprised at the variation of how much people drink/drank. I'm not a huge woman and I could drink 2 bottles of wine a night EASILY. And ten drinks a night? If you're talking 1-1.5 oz shots? Yep. Also wasn't an issue. You guys are SOME LIGHTWEIGHT boozers!! LOL.
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