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Do You Have A Drinking Problem Once Per Week?

Brian Lamacraft
6 min readJan 2, 2020

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In 2019 I went out almost every Friday night with my friends. We went to our local bars for drinks, dinner, and dancing. This might seem like a regular thing to do on a Friday night. If you were doing it every Friday night and you are drinking, you may actually have a drinking problem and not know it. After careful analysis of what I have been doing, I have determined that I have a Friday night drinking problem. Here is why I know that in 2020 I must cut back on my alcohol or eliminate it altogether.

Looking Forward to Drinking

With the state of this world today, I can imagine it that many people look forward to drinking on the weekend. It’s a way to relax, unwind, forget about work, and just have fun with the people that you care about it. The problem with this is it often gets out of control without you even knowing it. One or two beers end up becoming three or four. Before you know it, you could have 6 or 10. You end up waking up in the morning with a serious headache or a bad hangover and wonder why you did what you did. You shrug it off and think that it’s just the normal thing to do when it’s not.

Every Friday, I have been looking forward to drinking. I’ve been looking forward to spending time with my friends but the fact that I was going to be drinking was more on my mind than having a…

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Brian Lamacraft
Brian Lamacraft

Written by Brian Lamacraft

Brian is an online writer and blogger. In his spare time, he plays guitar and goes camping.

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