"I drink socially, but not regularly," he said.

Most people I knew drank socially, but I had stopped hanging out with the ones who couldn't handle their liquor.

Alice Laster-Rhein, a 31-year-old speech therapist working on a journalism degree, said she was too busy to drink socially.

He drank socially, was active, though not athletic, and had his own law practice.

All of this leads parents to wonder whether or when they should permit their children to drink socially, even though it is illegal.

She said she is also a recovering alcoholic who drinks socially.

Although brother Ron was a self-diagnosed alcoholic, Lindner only drank socially.

He just didn't drink socially, but would disappear on benders lasting days.

Like any situation in which people are drinking socially, it's easy to keep drinking with them.

He participated in a wider world than some Pakistanis, and was said to love women and to drink socially.