Sentences with phrase «become heavy drinkers»

That some people may be biologically vulnerable to alcohol addiction has not been proven; in fact, there is no evidence that heredity places a person at greater risk of becoming a heavy drinker than family environment, character, beliefs and conduct.

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As to alcoholics, he says: «The broad interpretation that best fits the evidence is that heavy drinkers are people for whom drinking has become a central activity in their way of life... for the long - term heavy drinker, life has come to center on drinking — life [that] is pervaded by a preoccupation with drinking, shaped and driven by the quest for drink, drinking situations, and drinking friends» (p. 100).

To discuss whether one is a heavy drinker or an alcoholic can easily become a matter of semantics.

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Brumback provides an example of how this could play out in the real world, «Say a heavy drinker is out at a restaurant and becomes intoxicated.

So, while 1 or 2 glasses is fine, I've fallen into the trap before of replacing my sugar calories with alcohol calories (and in the process became quite a heavy drinker for a couple of months).