1.   One can be a social drinker without turning into an alcoholic.

2.   Both autopsies reported that True, known to friends as a light social drinker, had large quantities of alcohol in his system at the time of death.

3.   But last Christmas, after careful thought, she took her first steps toward becoming a social drinker.

4.   Each time he had a drink, I asked him to think about whether a social drinker would.

5.   He is a social drinker who learns that he is an alcoholic.

6.   In contrast, a true social drinker is someone for whom alcohol presents little or no issue.

7.   Opponents say the lower level would be largely a cosmetic change that would ensnare many social drinkers.

8.   The beverage industry has opposed lowering the definition for intoxication, arguing it would unfairly focus on social drinkers.

9.   The number of social drinkers, once a staple of drunken driving arrests, has steadily declined.

10.   The social drinkers are off the road.