<Li> Given up or cut back on activities that were important or interesting to you, or gave you pleasure, in order to drink? </Li> <Li> More than once gotten into situations while or after drinking that increased your chances of getting hurt (such as driving, swimming, using machinery, walking in a dangerous area, or having unsafe sex)? </Li> <Li> Continued to drink even though it was making you feel depressed or anxious or adding to another health problem? Or after having had a memory blackout? </Li> <Li> Had to drink much more than you once did to get the effect you want? Or found that your usual number of drinks had much less effect than before? </Li>

Who says abnormal addiction to alcohol is alcoholism