ex alcoholics??

[Lisax]

what is the word to describe them???

[Quizmonkey]

'Recovering' seems to always be used.

[Kay]

" Recovering Alchohics"?  It is said though that even people who have succeeded in overcoming alchohlism are still and always will be alchoholics.

[DJKC]

Is it "tea total" ??

[ICEMANSAV]

alcoholics, one of the 12 step program is for them to admit that they cannot control their addiction and therefore will always be addicted.

[OBonio]

Whatever the word is, they're not as bad ex smokers with their holier than thou attitude.

[arty7774]

There is no such thing as an ex-alcholic. Once you become one you remain one, that is why they have to totally give up drinking.

[SuperPigeon]

I thought it was ex-alcoholics

[Laurinha]

They are always known as alcoholics - either on or off the wagon.

It does seem a pity that even if one totally stopped drinking, one couldn't shake the term.

[beerbelly]

if a smoker packed in smoking .he/she would be an ex-smoker ! or would they always be a smoker ,even if they had not had a cigarette for years !!
just trying to confuse things a bit ......

[silly moo]

a smoker is not the same as an alcoholic.
Smoker / drinker.

Alcoholism is a recognised illness, it's an incurable addiction.

[jno]

technically, I suppose you can't be an ex-alcoholic any more than you can be an ex-diabetic; you remain one even if the illness is permanently under control. Still, no actual need to remind the sufferer forever that he/she is alcoholic; they don't need to be defined by their illness any more than diabetics do. They're just people who have a problem but have got on top of it.

[sleatforlife]

i need a drink

[Lauchie mac]

am rubbered lyke

[sleatforlife]

wats new? cumin down the queen vic?

[Lauchie mac]

nah i mite go down to the woolpac

[sleatforlife]

solid eh. mite see toms lezbo antie. a word? sound?

[Lauchie mac]

e'''r body in the club gettin tipsy