what is wrong with drinking as an escape?

Bigredmed
Tue, 01 May 2007 17:47:49 +0000

Smurf - one sign does not make a diagnosis. If you’d like, I could run the OP through the Audit-C and the CAGE questionnaires and give you a more definitive answer through validated means of alcoholism screening. But of course, you don’t seem to believe that I’m in medical school judging by your snide alterations of my screen name.

Alcoholism is a severe disease, one with very defined criteria and is not a term to be thrown around lightly. People here, especially those with no formal education on identifying alcoholism, shouldn’t be so quick to judge.

If you don’t like these alcohol threads, don’t read them.