Steve-O's wise words about "functional" alcoholism.

"The worst thing would be to have alcoholism just bad enough that it really slows you down, destroys your potential, gets in the way, but it's not so bad that it has to stop. How many people do I know with just the years slipping through their fucking fingers and they're blowing it, just wasting everything."

He speaks on this in an interview where he says he is grateful for having alcoholism so bad that he was forced to do all the things that sober people have to do (AA and the like). When I'm considering drinking, I go back to this quote because it really hits home for me as a "functional" alcoholic.