No more booze? What name would/do you go by?

[Duty]

OK - so defining an "alcoholic"....if somebody repeatedly gets into trouble with the police when drunk, say, on average 6 times a month, but denies they are an alcoholic, is it fair to denote them an alcoholic nevertheless? If not, then surely there is no objective measure/diagnostic criteria for alcoholism, and in that case it is perfectly sensible to describe oneself (as, to be fair, AWTY already pointed out it would seem) an ex-alcoholic, smurf, teeingoffshot, leprechaun (nod to Boru), militant temperance practitioner, or simply non-drinker. Teetotal sounds good now to me yet...there's something disingenuous in that in the term...as if it doesn't state there was a problem with alcohol, deceptive then....ex-alcoholic still sits best with me I think - I am not a problem drinker, but was once and so now abstain - so ex.