Proof of your alcoholism

So you were pondering if you're an alcoholic, wondering if drinking a case of beer and a quart of whisky each night qualifies you as a drunken hobo. Well wait no longer because trusty scientists have discovered the gene for alcoholism. Thats all well and good, and maybe you'll now be able to abort that baby that would drink more than its own weight in booze each night but what if you are drinking all the time and don't have the gene. What then?? Are you not an alcoholic because you don't have the gene. Well I don't know the answers to these questions but maybe a few beers would help clear my muddled head.