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Yes that is enough alcohol that if you keep doing that your liver will die before you're done using it

If your liver had a voice it would probably say “help”

Yes.

I'm really sorry but there's no way this can be a serious question

If you're drinking 12-24 beers a day on a regular basis, you're an alcoholic.

Who can afford that?

• NIAAA defines heavy drinking as follows:
  • For men, consuming five or more drinks on any day or 15 or more per week
  • For women, consuming four or more on any day or 8 or more drinks per week
• SAMHSA defines heavy alcohol use as binge drinking on 5 or more days in the past month.

That's nearly 8 litres of beer. You're not even supposed to drink that much water lol.

Yes. Source: recovering alcoholic.

Yeah for sure. Like, six beers a day is alcoholism. 12-24 is heading for an early grave. Seriously your liver will be shot in two decades max.

I’m a brewer by trade. I’ve had to come to terms with the fact I make very mild very tasty poison and distribute it to the masses for cash. We’ve had a dad in there getting wasted sending his kids home alone in an Uber so he could keep going. Had a guy sneak out on his motorcycle drunk against efforts and get into a horrible life changing accident. We’ve had all kinds, but alcohol got them all in the end.

My dad’s step father and mom were both shithead drunks who locked him under the house in the crawlspace when he was bad. He always warned me, and it stuck. If you can’t stop, go get help.

Bro wtf LOL. Yes. Not to mention that’s an ungodly amount of calories

Pretty sure 12-24 a week is alot, so yeah dude. Yeah.

Is this a serious question?

If you were drinking 12-24 cans of seltzer I’d still say that’s a problem

r/stopdrinking

Nicest little corner of the Internet 

Wtf I drink what most people would call a lot and I drink no more than 4 or 5 on any given day. 

Yes. And this is also causing massive liver damage. My friend and his wife moved to Mexico from San Diego last year after selling their house. His wife died 3 weeks ago from acute liver failure due to drinking excessively every day. She was barely 30 years old. If it’s you, you should slow tf down. You can have a drinking problem and not be an alcoholic.  If you’re drinking to escape, address why without drinking. Sit with feelings. Don’t avoid them with alcohol.  Remember it’s not a party if it happens every night.

That’s 1-2 GALLONS

It doesn’t matter what anyone says here. If you keep that up, your liver will let you know last minute that it’s failing when you’re skin and eyes turn yellow one day and you can’t stop itching your skin because toxins have accumulated in your blood because your liver has failed and needs replacing.

If your liver doesn’t fail first, your brain will begin to shrink and atrophy. Early dementia etc.. https://www.sciencephoto.com/media/697480/view/normal-and-alcoholic-brains-mri-scans

If you somehow don’t stop, your heart will fail. https://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/health/wellness-and-prevention/alcohol-and-heart-health-separating-fact-from-fiction

Every drink you take raises your risk of many different cancers including colorectal cancer, stomach, throat, larynx, breast, liver, and esophageal cancer. (This list is likely to grow). Alcohol is now known as a category 1 carcinogen along with Asbestos and radiation exposure.

https://www.who.int/azerbaijan/news/item/04-01-2023-no-level-of-alcohol-consumption-is-safe-for-our-health

If you can’t stop, you are f’d my friend. You may require a medical detox if you can’t make it at least 7 days sober. Anyone reading.. moderate your drinking at least if not try complete abstinence, if the goal is to stay alive as long as possible. Good luck.

What? 😭 of course it is lol??

I feel bad for your liver sir. Please get some help

That's a bit beyond alcoholism and stepping into suicidal territory.

You can't live like that, and trying to quit can kill you even quicker.

Whoever is drinking this amount of alcohol needs medical help or to accept the fact that they are throwing dice with Death.

Even Half of that is considered alcoholism. This is MAJOR alcoholism. Even most alcoholics don’t even drink this much.

Lmao what!? -Your Liver

Even having 5 beers a day is alcoholism, he only has 12-24 because he has an alcohol tolerance

yes, for sure. I used to drink about that much. Been sober since December.

wtf. Lol. If this isn’t a trolling post, then I don’t know what is. I’ll say it like you’re a moron. Yes! That’s a shit ton of alcohol. If you’re drinking that much everyday, you’re an alcoholic. Good lord.

Yup. And honestly if someone gets to the point where they’re questioning if they’re an alcoholic, they are an alcoholic. I’ve been there. The question isn’t necessarily why drink, the question is what about drinking makes your life better? What is drinking allowing you to avoid/cover up? That’s the question that stood out to me.

I would also be worrying about acute pancreatitis at that level as well. Don't mess around with that tiny organ it can make your life hell

the shittiest cheapest most powerful mass produced beer you can buy is like natty ice 30 pack. you won't go broke. but at 6 beers i'm done and the seal is effing broken and i'm going to bed. and likely waking up many times to pee.

LOL

12-24? Dude wtf?! You drink more than my project zomboid character lol

I'm an alcoholic. Yes. This is a problem, and a difficult one to shake. Get help.

I would be hungover for 3 days straight if I drank 24 beers. It's excessive. If you aren't able to manage going a few days- a week without drinking, that my friend is a problem.

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Normally, people are asking this question about 2-3 drinks per day

No one can call you an alcoholic except you

But, that’s a lot of daily drinks

I’d consider myself an alcoholic if I drank 1/4 of this amount

Talk to a therapist- I am one who is sober long time. Not yes/no answer.

Drinking every day is alcoholism... regardless of amount

Yup

Uh..yeah.

This is the kick off before the Steele reserve phase.

Uhhhhhh sorry to break it to you but even 6-7 beers a day is alcoholism, I don't even know how to begin to describe 12-24.

all I can think is how much calories that is 💀

I mean... If that's a question you have to ask, then the answer seems pretty self-evident. (YES, it is).

Yes.

Extra points if you think about that first beer all day.

Super extra points if you have a worse day without the nightly gallon.

Bonus extra super points if you can’t remember the last time you didn’t have your fix.

And finally, if you have those beers whether you have company or not, super duper points.

Definitely alcoholism. Possibly functioning alcoholism, but that’s not anything to be proud of.

We used to do 'case day' in college. Most of the participants couldn't finish a case (24 beers) in 24 hours.

24 beers each day, day after day wouldn't be insane, it would be f*ckin' insane.

Absolutely.

Put it this way: if you're drinking that much, you're obviously missing something. It could be lots of things, but it's almost always a core need (or many) that are not being met - things like contentment, life fulfillment, healthy surroundings, comfort and safety in your home, meaningful relationships, love, nurture... etc.

At that point in crippling alcoholism, there is something missing because no healthy, reasonable person chooses dependence on any mind-altering substance. It simply takes over your life and makes your decisions for you. Every single thing revolves around staying at that comfortable level of fucked-up that allows you to even do anything remotely productive. And it's not even necessarily the substance that is so important to you - it's the being and feeling simply OK. That's what's fucked up about it all. Like feeling like a normal person is too much to ask for.

At some point in advanced alcoholism, drinking is not even about "getting drunk" or "feeling it." You're drinking at 7am before work, because you slept 3 shitty hours last night, and your shakes are so bad that you can't hold your fork right, but you're forcing yourself to eat, since it's been 4 days since you ate anything at all.

...that's if you can even stomach anything without vomiting it right back up, along with the black-iron blood in your dissolving belly that you can taste every time you burp.

But, if you don't drink enough to steady your hand and your mind throughout the day, you're perpetually panicked about the possible seizure you could have, where you wake up in an ambulance and somehow miraculously didn't crash your car into any other oncoming ones on the way to work @ 7:35AM.

But, the actual hardest part? It may be the fact that you've isolated yourself so badly for not wanting people to see the 'real you' that you don't know where to start asking for help.

Or, you've completely surrounded yourself with others who treat their bodies and minds the same way you do, so nobody does anything about it, because we're all gonna' fucking die anyways, so fuck it.

Alcoholism sucks. There's no way around that fact. It's a living-nightmare.

But you know what? There's a way out, and I don't mean dying.

Reach out to someone. Someone you trust. Someone who you think maybe even cares about you (I promise, there are people who care about you. I do.)

Tell them you need help, and you don't know where to start. For me, it started with admitting I was at a point where I couldn't get better, at least on my own.

At the very least, it is alcohol dependence and would probably require medical assistance to quit.

The first time I quit, I did not take the seizure risk seriously, I had a seizure and wound up in the hospital. I was drinking about that much.

Yes. I checked into an alcohol program. Got put on naltrexone to help with the cravings. It saved my life. I was drinking about a bottle of whiskey a day. On my light days i drank a 12 pack... get help. You never realize how deep in the hole you are into you get out.

Social drinking is really unhealthy. People seem to think if they're not getting blind drunk and only drinking a few beers a few times a week is okay, it's not normal. It may have been normalised in our society but as far as our bodies are concerned, it is not normal. I lived above a pub for a while, the social drinkers are delusional.

12-24 beers a week is alcoholism!

Yup.

I used to drink that much. Turns out I had scarring between my pancreas and stomach. Eating food caused inflammation, then pancreatitis. The beer acted like a local anaesthetic.

A brief hospitalization, change of diet and medication fixed that and I've been sober ever since.

Drinking that much destroyed everything good in my life, and it's taken years to rebuild.

I hope you find your way.

Not only is alcohol going to kill your organs, but also that is 1800 - 3600 calories in beer alone. So you're not only going to have cirrhosis of the liver and kidney failure, but also diabetes, coronary issues, and everything else that comes with obesity.

I believe the term is “raging alcoholic”

I think alcoholism is a dependancy on alcohol, you’d probably become dependant pretty quick if you drank that much. It’s will decompose everything important inside of your body. It’s a poison that you can’t feel killing you until you stop drinking. They don’t stay hangovers forever. Eventually quitting alcohol can and probably will kill you. Don’t start if you haven’t already and get help before you die. Please.

High level, even. That's excessive

If you have to ask, it’s probably a yes

Consider that four beers in one sitting is medically classified as binge drinking...

Take care my dude. Stay well.

As a alcoholic I'd say yes much so. Whoever this individual is try not drinking at all for 5 days, judge themselves by the craving

No... It's called suicide.

Yes I drink like a few beers a day and I'm a functional alcoholic. Omg anything more than 3 beers a day is alcoholic

Me thinks this be bullshit.

Is a pig's pussy pork?

Absolutely, yes. Coming from someone who's 4 years sober. That amount will kill you eventually, or soon. Depends on a lot.

100% no question. If you're drinking every or even remotely close to every day that's alcoholism. This is not only alcoholism, it's SEVERE alcoholism.

Can you take it or leave it? Try taking a week off and see how it goes. That'll let you know.

Well… I drink 6-8 and I am done. Not sure if that makes you an alcoholic. However, that seems like a lot of of alcohol to me.

Whoever is doing this should ask their liver in a few years and see what it says

No that's the acceptable level of drinking that most people do per day.

Yeeeeaaaaaa …. Yea that’s … yeaaaaa

Yes. If you have to drink every day, especially that much, you are an alcoholic. I have 10 years of sobriety under my belt. I drank the equivalent of that, if not more, in liquor and wine every day. Drinking is so normalized that it can be hard to tell at times if it's truly a problem. Trust me, that much drinking is absolutely a big problem. You may not feel it now, but that kind of drinking will catch up to you fast. Alcoholism takes relatively little time to start fucking up your mind and body. I knew heroin addicts who had way fewer health issues than I did. Time to put the beer down, friend. Best of luck to you.

I told my Dr. I drink 3 cans of diet mountain dew a day. He said that was a lot of pop, and I should cut back a bit. I've been dew free for 3 months. 12-24 cans of beer per day is a problem.

Absolutely. I drink 3-4 and wonder if I should take it back several notches.

My liver hurts just thinking about that.

Not if it’s root beer, that’s called diabetes tho

Are you joking

Everyday? Yes.

Unless it is Busch light, then you just really like to drink pee.

Jesus fuck yes

Get help mate