Do I Have a Drinking Problem?

The standard tools that flag high-risk imbibing don’t always send the right people for help

David H. Freedman
Elemental
Published in
10 min readAug 8, 2019

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Illustration: Sammy Stein

JJoe drank regularly, but never seemed to run into trouble. He became sarcastic sometimes when he went to bars with friends, they said, but otherwise, they didn’t notice anything amiss. There were no ugly confrontations, no violence, no illness, no run-ins with…

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David H. Freedman
Elemental

David is a Boston-based science writer. The most recent of his five books is WRONG, about the problems with medical research and other expertise.