there are
three types of alcoholics. Episodic drinkers, for example, drink only now and then, but each of their
drinking episodes ends in overindulgence. Habitual excess drinkers are also only occasionally drunk, but
their episodes are much more frequent than those ofthe episodic drinker. The addict is a person who must
drink continually simply in order to function. It is the addict who needs medical assistance to withdraw
from the support of alcohol.