"drinker" in the Big Book

But the ex-problem drinker who has found this solution, who is properly armed with facts about himself, can generally win the entire confidence of another alcoholic in a few hours.

Then we have a certain type of hard drinker.

He may start off as a moderate drinker; he may or may not become a continuous hard drinker; but at some stage of his drinking career he begins to lose all control of his liquor consumption, once he starts to drink.

The idea that somehow, someday he will control and enjoy his drinking is the great obsession of every abnormal drinker.

Physicians who are familiar with alcoholism agree there is no such thing as making a normal drinker out of an alcoholic.

We would not even do the cause of temperate drinking any good, for not one drinker in a thousand likes to be told anything about alcohol by one who hates it.

The problem with which you struggle usually falls within one of four categories: One: Your husband may be only a heavy drinker.

Meanwhile you might try to help the wife of another serious drinker.

If your husband is a drinker, you probably worry over what other people are thinking and you hate to meet your friends.

Then that terrible tension which grips the home of every problem drinker will be lessened.

Seeing is believing to most families who have lived with a drinker.

Here is a case in point: One of our friends is a heavy smoker and coffee drinker.

Whether you are a hard drinker, a moderate drinker or a teetotaler, you may have some pretty strong opinions, perhaps prejudices.

As a moderate drinker, you can take your liquor or leave it alone.

What our friend, the vice president, had in mind was the habitual or whoopee drinker.

Now and then a serious drinker, being dry at the moment says, “I don’t miss it at all.