Excessive Drinking
I am actually a long-time pPruner, but this is my first post with my new username. The reason for re-registering (WHAT a performance!) is that my usual name wasn't anonymous.
This is a question for doctors and healthcare professionals which there is never time to discuss in the allocated NHS ten minutes, nor do I like to burden medical people with it on social occasions. Simply, it is "Why shouldn't I drink too much?"
The usual answers are unsatisfactory. I don't fly any more these days, and I don't drink until driving is done for the day. I'm not an embarrassment to society, or my friends - it is just that my "nightcap" is considerably more than the recommended dose. I may shorten my life a bit (I am 61), but I am watching my abstemious father suffer the misery and indignity of multiple TIAs and progressive incapacitation. If alcohol doesn't kill me then something else (probably worse) will. I'm an atheist so "God says its naughty" won't do, either. I have no other vices. I am going to cost the NHS most in the last year of my life, whether it is next year or in 20 years. Oh, and I consider myself happy and content with my life, both my past flying career and my present semi-retired life.
You will have to take the above at face value. There is no point my asking for an answer if I don't give you the honest facts. But doctors always seem to say "Because its bad for you", without reference to the bigger picture. So I thought I'd ask...