I do, you don't you seem to think they are the same. If an alcoholic is in recovery he wonl't be walking around drunk, he will be sober.
Alcoholism is a true dependency your body adabts to alcohol and physically needs alcohol or it begins to shut down, that IS an alcoholic. Someone that gets drunk does NOT have to be dependant on alcohol in order to get drunk and to be seen as drunk.
They are not the same thing.