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You don't need to be an alcoholic to drink too much. My father was fond of saying that he wasn't an alcoholic because he didn't "drink to extinguish." Yeah, but you still have five beers at lunch so what's the difference, really? I didn't drink at all for a long-ass time because I was afraid I'd turn into my parents. As it turns out not only am I a jovial drunk, but I really don't enjoy being inebriated. Drinking? Drinking I enjoy. But, as the old tavern-master says, "Drink is an excellent servant but a terrible master." Split the difference between total abstinence and total indulgence. Stop drinking for a month. See what happens. If nothing else, those binary approaches are easier to measure.