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Help docs! would it make me an alcoholic if i'm always thinking about going out for drinks?
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Only if you do more: than just think about it. If you are obsessed with drinking for the purpose of being intoxicated, rather than say being with the guys, or watching the big game, or whatever, then I would be concerned about you. But alcoholism doesn't come from thinking, but from drinking, and you don't say how much you drink, and if it is having any effect on your life, which is how you diagnose alcohol abuse.
Answered 6/15/2014
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