alcohol use
Imbibing intoxicating beverages
Alcohol use is the consumption of alcoholic beverages.
The phrase appears most often in clinical, public health, or research contexts where drinking needs to be discussed neutrally—neither condemning nor normalizing: The survey measured alcohol use among teenagers.
It encompasses everything from occasional social drinking to heavy dependence, with modifiers like *moderate*, *heavy*, or *problematic* specifying degree.
- DUI lawsLegal limits on intoxicated driving
- pub cultureSocial traditions around taverns
- open barFree drinks arrangement
- last callPre-closing drink announcement
- binge drinkingRapid excessive alcohol consumption
beer goggles · addiction · detox programs · liver damage · wine tasting · withdrawal symptoms · legal drinking age · impaired judgment · hangover · morning after · beer festivals · tolerance · 12-step programs · religious rituals · support groups · rehab centers · social drinking · liquor
- public healthdisease prevention, immunization, disease control, health education, epidemiology
- contraindicationspregnancy, breastfeeding, allergies, allergy, drug allergy
- substance usesubstance abuse, drug abuse, drinking, smoking, vaping
- underwritingunderwriting, underwriter, eligibility criteria, conditional approval, policy limits
- wellnesshealthy, wellness, fitness, exercise, nutrition
- health risksobesity, diabetes, smoking, hypertension, air pollution
alcohol usesobriety
Unimpaired mental state
abstinence · teetotalism · temperance · abstaining · alcohol abstinence
alcohol userecovery
Regaining what was lost
twelve-step program · rehabilitation · drying out · kicking the habit
use, alcohol, alcoholic, alcoholism, ethanol, nonalcoholic, alcohols, antialcoholic