Can't one survive without drinking liquor?
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Yes one can survive.\nthere are many alternatives to booze: water,tea,spot drinks,fruit juice and education.
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Our bodies are made up of 90%+ of water.  It absolutely needs water to survive.  There have also been studies that not drinking adequate water enhances many aging issues of the body, backaches, loss of eye site, memory issues, and skin density.  Also many organs need appropriate levels of water to function, kidneys, liver, muscles, brain, heart, etc.  Drinking is a must for the individuals survival!  Many dont drink near enough what they should.\n\nHowever, excess drinking of water is almost always eliminated immediatly via the kidneys and urination is more frequent.  I am not sure that drinking that much is necessary and I would concider it wasteful.   However, but there might be other issues that need to be looked at.  It could be that there is an obssesive/compussive issue at play.  If this is true there may well be other behaviors that will become noticable especially if you live with your boyfriend.  Another issue is drugs,  it is believed that exessive drinking will flush the body of signs of the drugs.  This is not always true as many drugs are fat soluable and drinking water will not necessarily flush the body of signs of drug use.  Marijauana is a prime example of this.  \n\nAs far as health issues for excessive drinking might be kidney troubles after years of this?  Hormonal and electrolyte imbalances might occure if this is done on long term.  Diet will help the electrolyte issues, but long term drinking like this could have some hormonal problems.  Who knows what long term effects could be beyond this, I dont think that it has been studied too much on the long term effects.  \n\nIf he has only been doing it a short time I doubt that there will be any health issues, but again I would concider the mental health issues and possibly drug addiction issues( that I mentioned in the 2nd paragraph), as more serious concerns for this matter.  Again these are only guesses and not to be taken as official diagnosis.\n\nAdded:  Diabetes may be a possible answer but that is a lot of water even for someone with Diabetes.
168951
don't drink alcoholic beverages, don't smoke, don't party excessively\nbut aging cannot be stopped
21803
You'll need to specify where you are - laws vary by location.\n\nHowever, you'll almost certainly need to keep the alcohol in an "adults only" area, separated from the main area, with nobody under the drinking age allowed into that area.
961081
Reproductive system we can live without entirely.\n\nMost other systems we need but can do without bits of:\n\neg. Neurology: we can live without vision, hearing, smell, taste
638359
Lots of stuff.  Alcohol is a poison --if you drink enough.  It dehydrates you , so i imagine the brain is also dehydrated.  i understand that heavy drinking can kill brain cells, but i don't know how much that source considered to be "heavy."
406888
Alcoholism is not something that can be cured. It is a disease and it is always there, even if you don't drink anymore. You will always have that temptation to drink, just like a smoker that quits will always want a cigarette. I guess the will to not drink anymore is the greatest "cure" that you can have. :)
216779
Ummm....The USA is probabaly the only one that really has one, or actually enforeces it. So a better question would have been, "What coutries do have an age limit on drinking?"
907402
beer before liquor, never been sicker...liquor before beer, ur in the clear!\n\nhow true it is!\n\nI choose beer
744499
If you drink heavily, that'll do it.\nIf you don't drink at all... don't!
1137267
well they can't keep there fitness up-the body uses the same enzymes to break down and excrete alcohol as it does to break down lactic acid. when there is alcohol and lactic acid in the body the alcohol is the priority for the enzyme so the lactic acid will remain in the system not to mention it is a diaretic(increases fluid loss so rehydration will take longer affecting muscle recovery greatly). All that said if they only have a glass or two it shouldn't have enough of an effect to hinder their recover but it definitely doesn't help.
742267
Alcohol... don't try to stay away from it anymore.... I just automatically stay away from it.  It's a killer no matter how you look at it.
111991
To drink Alcohol: No (provided, of course, that you are of legal drinking age in whatever place you happen to live.)\nTo be Drunken: Yes, with no exceptions.
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Alcohol tends to let down ones perception and inhibitions so yes its usually true that people will talk freely without fear of retribution when liquored up.
219483
Sorry, But unfortunitly, you can't help him. UNLESS of curse he wants help. I have a brother who has basically lost everything. House, Wife, Family and most of his friends. Why because he is a BIG TIME DRUNK. He wakes up by the bottle, he goes to sleep with the bottle, and he most likely will die by the bottle. He recently went to jail. YES for aocohol related stuff. He spent 3 months in jail. He couldn't smoke or drink any alcohol. Now keep in mind he was there for three months. I picked him up when he got released and took him home. His girlfriend later told me that when she got to his apartment he was DRUNK and smoking away. Good luck tho I hope he makes it.
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I drank everyday about for something like 20yrs the pressures of raising a daughter alone I guess and everyone told me I was a alcoholic and I couldn't stop on my own.  But one day I did I just stopped because I acually have no desire to drink.  I think it has been 10yrs now I really don't keep track.  I could drink now if I wanted to but I just don't want to.  There is nothing about drinking alcohol that I find attractive or desirable.  I don't care if other people do but there really not pleasant to be around.  It amazes my friends because they thought I would probably drink my self to death.  They were wrong.  Now I quit smoking after 35 years I think thats a little tougher, you really have to put your mind to it.
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Firstly, I do not buy into the doctrine of either none or lots.  Now then with that said, let me share some data with you.  When I was 23 I got seriously drunk and I went to the toilet and hung my head over the edge of the bowl and I puked and puked then dry heaved until I went to sleep.  When I awoke and noticed all those different pubie/pubic hairs all so variously adhered to its rim with that foul mix of dried yellow dots, I told myself, "I'll never get drunk again."  Now, I know some folk are full of fecal matter and such a self=promise wouldn't amount to a hill of digested beans.  I'm now 62 and that was 39 years ago and I have not been drunk!  I will not drive if I have drank more than two beers and if I come to visit whoever, if a snack included I will drink another if time is in my favor; like no tanking.  They say if three beers a day, then that person is acoholic; I am therefore an alcoholic.  I generally slow-sip about five or six beers per day.  Text-books of medicine proclaim a shot of whyskey per day is beneficial for longivity since it does some beneficial things within your body.  So, when say stop all, I realise they are coming from ignorance and know not what they are saying and I correspondingly bid them a nice day.  I have a bunch of long-term associates and my drinking has never alarmed any of them because they know I will not drink into a stupor and my mind remains entirely sensible.  I suggest to all, if you prefer a beer to a soda, have at it; but by all means, do drink responsibly.  So now you know why I do not listen to a smacked idiot.