1 someone who drinks a particular drink: --
2 a person who drinks (a stated type of liquid): --
a coffee drinker
3 a person who drinks liquids that contain alcohol, esp. regularly --
Non-professionals, especially the heavy drinkers, tended to emphasise other aspects of their lives, particularly the negative side of motherhood.
The one interviewee with his own tenancy was an elderly (71-year old) street drinker who had slept rough for many years.
Transgression of the self is the drinker's back door to the divine.
Despite this, and other limitations, it was estimated that mortality was reduced by 23-36% in the population of problem drinkers.
Males are more frequently heavy drinkers and express aggression openly by fighting whereas women tend to be drug, rather than alcohol, dependent.
However, among 'at-risk', heavy or problem drinkers, drinking patterns may be maintained in the later years, even if the quantity of alcohol consumed declines somewhat.
A ten-year follow-up study of older former problem drinkers: risk of relapse and implications of successfully sustained remission.
It returns the drinker to the realm of pleasure and continuity that precede individuation.
