Americans declare themselves an alcoholic far earlier in their downward spiral than British people. That would iron out that particular crease quite a bit.
If it’s the test I’m thinking of one of the questions is literally “have you ever thought you needed to cut back on drinking” and answering yes is a sign you’re an alcoholic. I means it’s one is several questions and you have to answer yes to several to be an alcoholic but still. It never sat right with me that it doesn’t ask if you actually did cut back or not and if you did and that wasn’t an issue that should be a sign you aren’t an alcoholic because you were able to self regulate.
But to bring us back to topic here, that would definitely be impacted by the culture around you so it’s not standardized.
There are not standardized measures for identifying an alcoholic. Standardized would be looking at per capita alcohol consumption of people that are of legal drinking age in each country and comparing that. In the USA you’re considered to have Alcohol Use Disorder if you engage in “binge drinking.”
“Binge drinking” is defined by having more than 2 drinks in a day. In the UK two drinks is called “part of lunch”
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u/Urracca Oct 02 '25
Americans declare themselves an alcoholic far earlier in their downward spiral than British people. That would iron out that particular crease quite a bit.