Chemda said, "your drinking too much, your an alcoholic"
I am saying it isnt how much you drink, its how and why you drink(do drugs or whatever) that define your disease. Plenty of people for thousands of years have consumed alcohol and not been alcoholics. She is coming from a personal palace and worried about him and sees her own penchant for addiction and applies it to Keith and not wanting him to be this way. She is projecting her fear of addiction, its not a judgment or a flaw, it is obviously from a place of love, not ball breaking. I believe Keith know his limits and sees truth in the mirror, if he didnt he would never have put the crack down. I would like to believe that when we are PSP'ing, we are all having fun, doing it from a fun place, enjoying ourselves. I dont think, but do not fully know, that Keith is drinking from the emotional place that puts so many partiers over the edge and transforms them into a full blown mess.
The emotional element behind your drinking/drugging is the factor that makes what you are doing a problem. Regulating your emotions with substances that alter your reality will become a problem for you and all those around you. Maybe Keith really is distraught over his relationship with his father and is drinking to numb the pain?
Maybe not.
For me, as soon as I realize that I am partying with a person who is doing this through drugs or alcohol, I will not drink with them at least at that moment and sometimes never again.
I have spent years and years of my life around many many people who are hot emotional messes regulating their inability to cope with life and the world and their own shitty decisions with booze or drugs, I just dont see it in this dude.
"if you know you are losing your soul, you still have one left to lose"
Charles Bukowski wrote that and he was more fucked up the 10,000 Keith Malleys.