heavy drinker

A heavy drinker, he was in the middle of a seven-year stretch of sobriety and “aggressively wanted me to adopt the values of whatever rehab programme he was in,” Stamper recalls.

She wasn’t a heavy drinker — she had a glass of wine with dinner, the occasional Aperol spritz — but she’d been hearing on podcasts and reading in the news that even a small amount of alcohol was much worse for her health than had previously been understood.

Always a heavy drinker, she gradually becomes addicted to all kinds of substances, in part because he is an addict.

Doug, whom his father had introduced to beer at 13, had been a heavy drinker himself, he said, “to the point of blackout” as a college student, and a social drinker thereafter.

Dolley kept another twenty-five enslaved servants for herself and her son, Payne, a heavy drinker and gambler whose debts were a major source of Dolley’s money woes.