My wife and I are in an argument over what the definition of alcohol abuse is versus misuse. From what I learned in my high school health class misuse IS abuse if the person drinking is underage as in our son’s case. My wife believes that abuse is reserved for raging alcoholics and that our son is just experimenting like everyone else his age. I have mixed views given my own “experimentation”, but I want to handle this better than our parents did. Our son also recently received a public intoxication ticket and we had to pick him up from the police station.
In the grand scheme of things the answer does not help us with our underage son, but it at least puts us on the same page as how best to handle it.
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