Is drinking every night for 6 months alcohol abuse?

No it just means you're an american male over 30

hell yeah brother

If taking a break is hard, make it more than a break and make a serious effort to cut alcohol out of your life entirely, because you're at a serious risk of becoming an alcoholic (if you aren't there already). If taking a break is easy, you're probably okay for now, though hold on to the philosophy of periodically making sure that you can indeed quit.

Depends on how much you're drinking.

Well if you apply this to everything, you should quit everything you enjoy cause it's hard to quit

https://www.who.int/europe/news/item/04-01-2023-no-level-of-alcohol-consumption-is-safe-for-our-health
We cannot talk about a so-called safe level of alcohol use. It doesnt matter how much you drink the risk to the drinkers health starts from the first drop of any alcoholic beverage.

https://www.cancer.gov/about-cancer/causes-prevention/risk/alcohol/alcohol-fact-sheet
The evidence indicates that the more alcohol a person drinksparticularly the more alcohol a person drinks regularly over timethe higher his or her risk of developing an alcohol-associated cancer. Even those who have no more than one drink per day and binge drinkers (those who consume 4 or more drinks for women and 5 or more drinks for men in one sitting) have a modestly increased risk of some cancers.

https://blogs.cdc.gov/cancer/2018/04/02/3-weird-things-about-acetaldehyde/
When you drink alcohol , your body breaks it down into a chemical called acetaldehyde. Acetaldehyde damages your DNA and prevents your body from repairing the damage. DNA is the cells instruction manual that controls a cells normal growth and function. When DNA is damaged, a cell can begin growing out of control and create a cancer tumor.

All types of alcoholic drinkseven red and white wine, craft beers, and cocktailsare linked with cancer. The more you drink, the higher your cancer risk. But its not just excessive drinkers at risk. For example, with each 10 grams of pure alcohol (less than one drink a day), a womans risk for breast cancer goes up 5% before menopause, and 9% after menopause.

Well if you apply this to everything, you should quit everything you enjoy cause it's hard to quit

Furthermore, adjl has all 4 possible True Loyalist GameFAQs badges, meaning he hasn't missed looking at GameFAQs for a single day for well over 4 years. Talk about unhealthy addiction!

Look, my Bpm is from 90-110 for the last two days. I quit drinking a month ago. Not sure if due to quitting drinking or maybe I just went from sea level to 2,000 ft elevation.

I was getting pretty drunk every night. Alcohol and shots.

Anything with addictive potential (especially one where an addiction would harm your life in other ways)? It's not a bad idea, at least to get a better understanding of your relationship with it to help you mitigate that potential. Alcohol is just particularly high on that list.

Factor in that it's physically addictive as well as psychologically addictive.
People have, and will, die from alcohol withdraw.

https://www.who.int/europe/news/item/04-01-2023-no-level-of-alcohol-consumption-is-safe-for-our-health
We cannot talk about a so-called safe level of alcohol use. It doesnt matter how much you drink the risk to the drinkers health starts from the first drop of any alcoholic beverage.

https://www.cancer.gov/about-cancer/causes-prevention/risk/alcohol/alcohol-fact-sheet
The evidence indicates that the more alcohol a person drinksparticularly the more alcohol a person drinks regularly over timethe higher his or her risk of developing an alcohol-associated cancer. Even those who have no more than one drink per day and binge drinkers (those who consume 4 or more drinks for women and 5 or more drinks for men in one sitting) have a modestly increased risk of some cancers.

https://blogs.cdc.gov/cancer/2018/04/02/3-weird-things-about-acetaldehyde/
When you drink alcohol , your body breaks it down into a chemical called acetaldehyde. Acetaldehyde damages your DNA and prevents your body from repairing the damage. DNA is the cells instruction manual that controls a cells normal growth and function. When DNA is damaged, a cell can begin growing out of control and create a cancer tumor.

All types of alcoholic drinkseven red and white wine, craft beers, and cocktailsare linked with cancer. The more you drink, the higher your cancer risk. But its not just excessive drinkers at risk. For example, with each 10 grams of pure alcohol (less than one drink a day), a womans risk for breast cancer goes up 5% before menopause, and 9% after menopause.

I was getting pretty drunk every night. Alcohol and shots.

• Have you felt the need to Cut down on your drinking?
• Do you feel Annoyed by people complaining about your drinking?
• Do you ever feel Guilty about your drinking?
• Do you ever drink an Eye-opener in the morning to relive the shakes?

binge drinkers (those who consume 4 or more drinks for women and 5 or more drinks for men in one sitting)

That seems like a really low bar for binge drinking, that is like just a normal night out with your friends, when I hear binge drinking im thinking 10+

That seems like a really low bar for binge drinking, that is like just a normal night out with your friends, when I hear binge drinking im thinking 10+

Nope, that's the definition of binge drinking. Bear in mind that "binge drinking" is defined by professionals who have extensively studied the effects alcohol has on the body and identified a threshold after which acute damage occurs, rather than by laypeople who just set the bar based on social norms among their peer group. Those are also "standard drinks," which means 12 oz of 5% beer, 5 oz of 12% wine, or 1.5 oz of 40% liquor. A pint of beer is actually 1.33 drinks, or more if it's stronger than 5%.

If youve reached the point where 5 drinks does *nothing*, that is the definition for binge drinking.

It gets me to a nice buzz, it's not nothing but not drunk either. When I think binge drinking I think at least drunk, if not completely wasted

answering yes to at least one of these is concerning for alcohol abuse.

It gets me to a nice buzz, it's not nothing but not drunk either. When I think binge drinking I think at least drunk, if not completely wasted

5 drinks doesn't even get me drunk though while it could get someone smaller (or with a less tolerance) plastered, you'd think that would play a role in what's binging or not

If you don't feel much of anything after crossing the threshold for binge drinking, that indicates a chronic pattern of alcohol abuse. You should try to cut back.

I know how alcoholism works, I have known many alcoholics, I also know how addiction works first hand with cigarettes. I'm not an alcoholic, I have no dependency on or cravings for alcohol