alcoholics
Those with dependency
Alcoholics are people addicted to alcohol—those who drink compulsively despite harmful consequences to their health, relationships, or livelihood.
The term implies a recognized condition rather than casual heavy drinking: Alcoholics Anonymous, recovering alcoholics.
As an adjective, alcoholic describes drinks containing alcohol or things relating to alcoholism: alcoholic beverages, an alcoholic parent.
Liquor or apparitions
- whiskeyOak-aged grain spirit
- vodkaClear distilled spirit
- ginCotton-cleaning machine
- rumMolasses-based liquor
beer · wine · liquor · booze · flask · bottle · handle · mouthwash
Powerful urge to have
- withdrawalAct of taking away
- relapseReturn to former illness
- toleranceWillingness to accept difference
- compulsionIrresistible urge to act
dependence · detoxification · intervention · enabler · codependency · binge · self-medication · denial
Unimpaired mental state
- abstinenceVoluntary forgoing of indulgences
- rehabilitationRecovery from injury/addiction
- sponsorFunder of activities
- meetingsOrganized group assemblies
AA · amends · chips · anniversary · healing · wellness · transformation
Mark of dishonor
- shamePainful awareness of failure
- familyRelated people together
- dysfunctionAbnormal or unhealthy operation
- interventionPurposeful involvement to change course
isolation · homelessness · DUI · divorce · estrangement · functional · high-functioning
spirits
Liquor or apparitions
rum · beer · wine · liquor · booze · flask · bottle · handle · mouthwash
craving
Powerful urge to have
- withdrawalAct of taking away
- relapseReturn to former illness
- toleranceWillingness to accept difference
compulsion · dependence · detoxification · intervention · enabler · codependency · binge · self-medication · denial · blackout
sobriety
Unimpaired mental state
- abstinenceVoluntary forgoing of indulgences
- rehabilitationRecovery from injury/addiction
- sponsorFunder of activities
meetings · AA · amends · chips · anniversary · healing · wellness · transformation
stigma
Mark of dishonor
- shamePainful awareness of failure
- familyRelated people together
- dysfunctionAbnormal or unhealthy operation
intervention · isolation · homelessness · DUI · divorce · estrangement · functional · high-functioning
- addictsaddicts, addict, junkies, drug addict, drug addicts
- alcohol problemsbinge drinking, heavy drinking, cirrhosis, detox, rehab
- drinkersdrinker, drinkers, imbiber, imbibers, drunk
- patientspatient, inpatients, inpatient, outpatients, outpatient
- populationspatients, inpatients, outpatients, elderly patients, stroke patients
- homelessnesshomeless, homeless shelters, unhoused, homeless veterans, houseless
alcoholicsteetotalers
Those avoiding all alcohol
non-drinkers · abstainers · non-alcoholics · prohibitionists · social drinkers
- alcoholic drinkBeverage containing ethanol
- Alcoholics AnonymousRecovery fellowship for addicts
- recovering alcoholicPerson maintaining sobriety from drinking
- chronic alcoholicOne addicted to drink
- non-alcoholic drinkBeverage without spirits
- alcoholic beveragesDrinks containing ethanol