Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in collaboration with the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA). The study appears today in the CDC journal Preventing Chronic Disease.

Also, a “habit” is not an addiction. I have a habit of tapping my steering wheel when I listen to music in my car. There is a lot of overlap, but they’re different words that can occur separately. And not all unhealthy habits are addictions. And not all healthy addictions are merely habits.

People who throw around the term alcoholic for fun, are like those people who say “OmG i’M sO OCD” because they like to keep their towels folded neatly in a cabinet.

You’re harming alcoholics by mischaracterizing the disease, while being gleefully judgmental, and confidently wrong.