An individual who was far nicer when drinking than sober. Dry drunks often follow cult-12-steps beliefs that inveigh against using any kind of medication, especially psychotropics. Some of us suspect that many dry drunks may be bipolar.

Dry drunk is a term used, often disparagingly, by members of Alcoholics Anonymous (AA) and by substance abuse counselors who subscribe to the AA theory of alcoholism to describe the recovering alcoholic who is no longer drinking but whose thought processes are considered to continue to be distorted by the thought patterns of addiction.