alcoholic

He was an alcoholic who picked fights with directors and others.

It is similar to ethanol, which is used for alcoholic drinks, but is cheaper and more toxic to humans because of the way it is processed by the body.

It's the first line Jack Lowden speaks in The Fifth Step, a two-hander play that focuses on the relationship between a recovering alcoholic and his sponsor.

Using her charm offensive, Hedda goads naive spouses to cheat, recovering alcoholics to drink and depressives to wander off into the darkness with a revolver.

Eight countries have been added to a UK Foreign Office list warning of the risks of methanol poisoning from counterfeit or tainted alcoholic drinks.