It’s not really that slippery of a slope if your drinking “pattern” eventually becomes more conservative. The limits you set for yourself must change as you get older. If you’re at a case and a half of beer every week at age 25, you’re going to want to be down to a case a week by age 40, and by 60 you should still be enjoying your beer at maybe just a half case per week, even if you knock back all 12 in a 6-8 hour period. At that rate of change, you will probably never even come close to physical addiction. However, if you find that you’ve become an increasingly mean drunk more than you’ve been a happy drunk, you might want to cut back a little and by no means should you switch to hard liquor...That shit’ll kill ya!
Uhhh...just speaking for myself there. People are different.