| Since many people feel that beer and wine are | | | | months. Or short of that, try having one or two |
| "lighter" forms of alcohol than liquor, there is some | | | | beers or glasses of wine (only) once or twice a |
| question as to whether you can become an alcoholic | | | | week maximum for this same period of time. |
| just drinking beer or wine. | | | | You will find out pretty quickly whether you are |
| The answer is yes you can become an alcoholic even | | | | suffering from a compulsion to drink if you cannot pull |
| if you drink only beer or wine exclusively. They are | | | | this off. First, you find that you have an |
| both alcohol and you can develop an alcohol addiction | | | | overwhelming need to drink and will have that glass |
| on any type of drink with an alcohol content, no | | | | of beer or wine in your hand in no time. |
| matter how low the alcohol content happens to be. | | | | If you can go for a month without drinking and then |
| Whether or not you have developed an alcohol | | | | reward yourself with more drinking, that does not |
| addiction is likely most easily determined by making | | | | mean you haven't developed an addiction. Many |
| the effort to stop drinking the beer or wine or | | | | alcoholics can go a month without drinking (usually |
| whatever you happen to be drinking regularly and | | | | there will be some suffering involved) then they will |
| see if you can succeed at stopping for say, six | | | | very shortly return to their previous drinking pattern. |