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Ive been looking everywhere and i cant find a good source! I also need statistics about this topic! I need it from a legit source, not from what you know off the top of your head. Thanks!

My 23 year old daughter has been a binge drinker ever since the year 2006. She drinks a fifth of wine (750 ml) 4-5 times a week every week. She started in 2006 when she met a guy who was an alcoholic and he gave her booze and stuff so she learned from him. I tell her I think she drinks too much but she wont listen to me and says she will not cut down and likes the level she is drinking at. I know it takes many many years for the liver to fail as a result from drinking too much but how long exactly does it take? People tell me it could take 20 years or longer for irreversible damage to be done by drinking too much but I am not quite sure it is true or not. Is my daughter drinking enough to cause irreversible damage? and how long would it take? she has 3 days a week where she doesn’t drink but then starts again as the weekend emerges so I don’t think she gives her body enough time to recover from the binging she does but she claims she loves alcohol and wont cut down. In 2006 she started bingeing when she met a boyfriend who was also an alcoholic. She did have a 9 month break but only because she got pregnant and had a baby girl. Ever since she gave birth she neglected her little girl so she can drink. She has not been taking care of her little girl ever since then she leaves me to take care of the child instead. She drinks in front of her daughter and her daughter probably knows it’s alcohol so she tells her "mommy don’t drink" but she chugs the bottle right in front of the child. I can’t get her to stop so how long will it take and what age would she start to get health problems? Also, the alcohol makes her crazy when she drinks she gets aggressive and starts throwing things, cursing out her family members and her child saying she hates the child and wants her dead and once she threw the house phone at the child when she was drunk and it’s a good thing she missed because that would have been quite a blow to the child’s head but she was very close. She’s very aggressive when she is drunk, she says she wont get liver damage from drinking if she takes Milk Thistle and says she will go to buy it and take it and that should solve all of her problems but how effective is Milk Thistle? Does it actually help?